Guide book on touring the New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails.
Travel the New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails, three fascinating self-guided
driving tours along scenic rural roads that reveal New Mexico's rich
heritage of fiber arts. Whether you drive the Northwest, North Central,
or Southern loops, you'll encounter vibrant communities of traditional
and contemporary weavers, quilters, knitters, basket makers and other
fiber artists.
Visit a community of Navajo weavers and several
trading posts on the Northwest Loop and buy high quality handwoven
Navajo rugs. On the North Central loop, learn about embroidered manta
cloth and other Pueblo fiber arts at Santa Clara Pueblo and visit the
Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center, a thriving nonprofit supporting more
than 400 artists and entrepreneurs. On the Southern loop, visit museums
exhibiting fiber arts and, in Silver, City, The Common Thread, home to
the Southwest Women's Fiber Arts Collective.
This is just a
small taste of what you'll encounter on New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails, a
project of New Mexico Arts. The journeys feature more than 200 fiber
artists at more than 70 locations.