Nau mai, haere mai - Hello and welcome - Haa and welcomin
Wairarapa Wool Weekend is a fibrecraft event designed to promote the Wairarapa region and the New Zealand wool industry while acknowledging te ao Māori and developing a whanaungatanga, or community, of crafters. Wairarapa Wool Weekend will be held once every two years and each muster (gathering) will be based in a different Wairarapa town to allow participants to discover and explore the greater Wairarapa region. To add an international flavour we will also be focusing on countries (or parts of the world) where people have emigrated to New Zealand from and celebrating the craft and culture they have brought with them. In support of this there will be a guest speaker and/or workshop tutor who will share their love and knowledge of the unique craft history and identity of the area. Activities will include fibrecraft workshops, public talks, a traders hall, tree planting ceremony, lights up crafting, craft café evenings, specialist tasting sessions and a gala evening event.
Entry to the event is by way of a paid registration fee. Fibrecraft workshops will incur an additional fee.
Wairarapa Wool Weekend's First Muster is scheduled for March 20th - 23rd, 2025, in the beautiful Victorian village of Greytown - Te Hūpēnui.
Our hub will be at the Cobblestones Museum complex on Greytown's main street.
We will be celebrating the craft and culture of the Shetland Islands.
Our international guest speaker and workshop tutor is the designer Gudrun Johnston who was born on Shetland and is currently the Brand Director of Simply Shetland who are the North American distributors of the Jamieson's of Shetland range of wools.
She has also just launched a video podcast on YouTube called The Shetland Trader
Our charity partner for 2025 is Hospice Wairarapa. Details about the wonderful work they do in our community and our event based fundraising initiatives can be found here.
The 2025 programme is available here.
Registration and tickets will be available to purchase here from 7.00pm (NZ) on Tuesday, January 28th.
Ka kite i a koe ākuanei - See you soon - Saa ye sair
Wairarapa Wool Weekend supports, encourages and celebrates diversity, inclusiveness and equity
Our major sponsor is
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