The award-winning
Waterford Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit
October 1, 2 & 3, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Waterford Fair is the oldest
juried crafts fair in Virginia and winner of the 2007 Loudoun Convention & Visitors
Association (LCVA) 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! Two gorgeous items 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 pot or a special bookmark,
be enchanted by a magician or mesmerized by a mime, or ride a
country wagon filled with hay.
Tickets
Advance tickets may be ordered by mail, phone or online at the
price of $15 per person from August 10 through September 22. Advance
tickets may also be purchased through Thursday, October 1, 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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