The award-winning
Waterford Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit
October 5, 6 & 7, 2012
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Waterford Fair is the oldest
juried crafts fair in Virginia and four-time winner Loudoun Convention & Visitors
Association (Visit Loudoun) Best Event of the Year. View
a video about the fair. In addition to historic homes open
for tour, 155 juried heritage craftspeople (many nationally known)
provide hands-on demonstrations, entertainers provide continuous
traditional music and dance, Colonial and Civil War-era militia
encamp and demonstrate, and there are children's activities throughout
the weekend.
The proceeds from the Fair are used to carry out the Waterford
Foundation's mission of education and preservation.
Don’t
miss the raffle! A gorgeous bowl from longtime exhibitors
are highlights of the Fair.
One-hundred fifty-five artisans,
many nationally known, will demonstrate techniques of traditional
craftsmanship.
Federal
brick houses, spacious Victorian
homes, simple Quaker buildings and small log structures, barns,
Civil War and Quaker cemeteries, an old mill and a one-room schoolhouse
are open during the Fair.
Three floors of juried
handcrafts for sale in a restored
brick mill. Vintage barns transformed into galleries
for paintings, sketches, photographs and dried flowers. The Country
Store offers homemade breads, cookies, handblown glassware and
the Waterford tote bag.
A Revolutionary War militia camps in
Waterford. A fife and drum corps marches through the narrow streets. Civil
War soldiers reenact a past battle. And there is music
everywhere—string bands, troubadours, barbershop,
gospel, classical, folk, traditional.
The Fair is a magical place for children!
Many
of our artisans' demonstrations of their crafts will especially
delight children, who might help make a clay pot or a candle, take
a lesson from a sword-master, or be enchanted by a magician or
charmed by an organ grinder, peer into a real one-room schoolhouse
(used until 1957), or ride a country wagon filled with hay. It
is entertainment with a purpose: the historic crafts demonstrated,
the music played, the military reenactors, and of course the setting
in beautifully preserved Waterford village all bring alive the history
of an early American village for children. And children under
12 attend for free!
It
is entertainment with a purpose
The historic crafts demonstrated,
the music played, the military re-enactors, and of course the setting
in beautifully preserved Waterford village all bring alive the
history of an early American village for children. And
children under 12 attend for free!
Tickets
Advance tickets may be ordered by mail, phone or online
at the price of $15 per person from August 10 through September
21. Advance tickets may also be purchased through Thursday, September
30, at the Waterford Foundation office, or any of our local ticket
outlets. More
How to participate in the Fair
If you would like to volunteer, enter your art or photographs,
sell your crafts on consignment at the Old Mill, or demonstrate
and sell your craft during the Fair, please go to our participation
page.
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