Fiber Art Demonstrations at FIBRuary
Demos at FIBRuary Festival bring you up close with entire process from fleece to finished object.
Watch our experts and teachers as they use their tools to process fiber, spin it, and weave it into a finished object.
Our demonstrators are excited to answer your questions about their crafts and they’ll have opportunities for you to try out equipment!
Nelly DeVault
Nelly is the Founder and Executive Director of the Madison County Youth Spinning Guild and has been a passionate teacher of fiber arts for the past 8 years in Indiana.
She will be bringing wool and other fibers, fiber processing tools such as cards, combs, spindles, and a wheel. She will be demonstrating aspects of creating yarn from fiber throughout the festival.
Guests can try carding, combing, drop spindling, as well as treadling the wheel.
Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer is a fiber artist focused on weaving and sharing her love of fiber through teaching. She owns Fiber Maker Studio in Greencastle Indiana and offers a variety of weaving classes.
She will be demonstrating different types of weaving throughout the festival, with hands-on experiential learning. She will be bringing a multi-shaft table loom, rigid heddle (plain weave), rigid heddle (pattern pick up), and will also be demonstrating band weaving and Baltic pick-up band weaving.
Guests can try different types of weaving: multi-shaft table loom, rigid heddle, and band weaving.
Saturday Demo Only: Conner Prairie’s Youth Spinning Team
Representatives of Conner Prairie’s award-winning Youth Spinning Team are proud to demonstrate on spinning wheels and other textiles equipment on Saturday, Jan 31, at FIBRuary Festival. These young volunteers, ages 10-18, teach historic and modern textiles at Conner Prairie, a living history museum in Fishers, Indiana. They also compete and demonstrate textiles at outreaches across the state and work collaboratively to produce projects such as scarves and shawls.
The youth volunteers at FIBRuary Festival represent just one way youth and adults can volunteer at Conner Prairie. Visit their demonstration for information or visit connerprairie.org to learn more ways to get involved.
