Workshops

September 5, 2025

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Making 18th Century Leather Breeches

An Introduction to Dating and Drawing Historic Buildings

Cooking and Forging with Fire

Kilts Farm Shoemakers Shop and Shoe Production Presentation

Making Evergreen Kissing Balls

Workshop

Event

November 28th

In this workshop we explored our extensive textile tool collection with Rabbit Goody of Thistle Hill Weavers. Skip Barshied collected diverse examples of textile tools from the local Mohawk Valley. His collection is representative of the linen and wool spinning and weaving done in homes throughout the valley. We spent a weekend cleaning, repairing, and making these tools functional.

We learned to identify tools for fabric working, what makes them special or common, and the process that produced fabrics for everyday life in the Mohawk Valley.

Textile workshop participants hard at work.

A number of textile tools laid out for display at Kilts Farm.

A group of participants standing around a frame during the textiles workshop.

Two women working at the loom in a workshop at Kilts Farm.