VALLEY — Only 64 vendors are selected annually for the prestigious Taos Wool Festival coming up October 6 and 7.

Their criteria are simply the best fiber artists or wool fiber providers or fiber equipment retailers get juried in.

The festival takes place at the Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico.

Selected San Luis Valley vendors are:

• Kim Perkins who founded Cat Mountain Fiber Arts in 2008. The studio is located a few miles east of Fort Garland. It specializes in hand-dyed natural fiber yarns and knitwear designs. It carries an exclusive colorway inspired by literature, art, nature and Kimberly’s surroundings in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo[1] Mountains of Colorado.  Find Kimberly’s unique yarns at the Taos Wool Festival in booth #48 or contact her online at www.yarngalleryonline.com. 

Perkin’s husband Brian is the official Taos Wool Festival photographer and media expert.  His studio is located at the Historical Masonic Building downtown Alamosa (upstairs).  He can be reached at www.brianperkinsphoto.com

• Perla Kopeloff is a fiber felt artist working in silk and Merino wool and her studio-home is only two miles south of Alamosa. Perla has been showing and selling her wearable art pieces in Taos and Santa Fe for four years. Her pieces can be purchased at the Wool Fest in booth #19. She can also be reached at www.fiberspaceart.com or e-mail at [email protected]

• Elena Miller works incessantly with her flock of Merino, Rambouillet, and Wensleydale sheep at the Cactus Hill Farm in Capulin. This multigenerational farm is run with love by Elena along with her father Alen in a place of beauty. Her award-winning fleeces, yarns and roving can be purchased at the Taos Wool Festival in booth #2 or she can be reached at www.cactushillfarm.com

• Jeannine Willet who owns Prairie Falcon Fibers in Monte Vista. She specializes in hand spun yarns also handyed. She can be reached in booth # 17 at the show or at her site www.prairiefalconfibers.com 

Caption: From left are Kim Perkins, Perla Kopeloff and Elena Miller.  Not pictured is Jeannine Willet./Courtesy photo by Brian Perkins

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