Wool Days at Old Sturbridge Village
| Venue: | Old Sturbridge Village |
| Hours: | 9:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor, Outdoor |
| Cost: | see below |
| Category: | Learn Something |
During Wool Days the Old Sturbridge Village get their annual “hair cuts” and historians demonstrate how wool is processed – from shearing, scouring, and carding to dyeing, spinning, and weaving (in other words, from sheep to shirt). Try your hand and test your history IQ at our textile exhibit. Memorial Day is also our official kick-off to summer activities like period games, 1830s “base ball” and “French & English” tug-of-war contests.
The sheep get their yearly 'haircuts' this weekend. Farmers shear the sheep, and costumed history interpreters demonstrate the entire wool textile process, from scouring and carding the wool to spinning, knitting and weaving the handspun wool yarn into a blanket.
Try your hand at carding the wool, and then see how the Village's 19th-century water-powered carding mill can do the same job much faster.
Meet the lambs, chickens, cows and oxen, and watch a host of daily demonstrations, including musket firing, hearth cooking, printing, coopering, blacksmithing, shoe-making and launching toy hot air balloons.
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Regular Daytime Admission Rates(subject to change without notice)Adults $20.00Seniors (65 and over) $18.00Youths (3-17) $7.00Children Under age 3 Admitted FreeFor more information call 1-800-SEE-1830, or visit www.osv.org.
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.osv.org/activities_events/event_calendar_more.html?ID=560&DateID=1785
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Route 20, Sturbridge, MA map
Phone: 800-SEE-1830
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