From the festival's website:
The Salida Fiber Festival, started in 2012 and conducted entirely by volunteers, has become one of the premier events in Central Colorado and one of the most diverse and well-attended fiber festivals in the West.
Featuring vendors focused on all aspects of textiles, the festival has grown in five short years from 38 to 70 vendors, and also includes fiber-related classes and demonstrations, a make-and-take activity tent, a silent auction tent featuring a variety of goods donated by vendors and Salida businesses, and a tree-shaded beer garden offering local beer, wine, and distilled drinks.
The festival is held in beautiful Riverside Park, alongside the Arkansas River, framed by 100- year-old trees. The Salida area offers something for everyone, including outdoor activities such as rafting, mountain biking and hiking, as well as an historic downtown featuring numerous art galleries and shops in the state's first Creative District.
Leece examines some fleece in one of the stalls
This vendor gave weaving demonstrations and tips. She is on a Schacht Baby Wolf loom
This is a demo on how to separate and prepare the layers peeled from a mawata, or 'silk hankie.' Each layer is formed from a single silkworm cocoon; a mawata may have 20-30 layers
We went up to Monarch Pass and that area. This shot is from later, taken along the Arkansas River between Salida and Cotopaxi
