This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Sheep to Yarn
In-person
Craft Fibre & textile arts Museum Visual artsDate and time
Location
Sundre & District Historical Society and Museum (Sundre Museum)
211 1 Avenue SW
Sundre, AB
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible, has gender-neutral washrooms, and is a relaxed performance.
About
Meet Adrienne Beck, local fibre enthusiast, who dove deep into the angora rabbit hole of fibre arts. It wasn’t just enough to learn to knit, she had to explore carding, spinning, weaving and dying too.
No craft has tools with crazier names than those used to process animal fibre into the luxurious yarns we know and love.
- Play a game to find out if you can identify fibres from both animal and plant sources.
- Try your hand at carding wool, spinning or weaving.
- Explore the variety of techniques that have developed over the centuries that go far beyond our basic need to clothe ourselves.
Organizer
Sundre & District Historical Society
The Sundre & District Historical Society is a passionate group of people providing a unique destination by exhibiting local history and its people. We aim to preserve and "Celebrate the way we were" by embracing our future, providing a facility for exhibits ad activities centered around arts, culture, education, information and celebrations for the community, tourists, schools and other organizations.