Spring & Fiber Fest: Tierra, Agua y Vida
Spring Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas celebrates water, land & life!
Please join us for fun, fiber & food. Experience traditional activities like sheep shearing, wool dyeing, canoa carving, rope making, horno bread baking, crafts for children & more!
Visit with our weavers as they turn wool into works of art. Every aspect of traditional fiber arts will be represented in this two-day event.
Spring Fest also welcomes the growing season with a traditional mass & procession in honor of the Museum’s Patron Saint, San Isidro.
Please join us as we kick off the 2019 season with one of our most traditional events!
Saturday, June 1 & Sunday, June 2
Time: 10am to 4pm
Adults: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13–18): $6
12 and under: FREE!
2019 vendors
Aguja y Clavo Jewelry Designs
Angel Artwork
Barrel’s Wood Creations
Barrio Tinwork
Button Box Aprons
Dancing Dolphins
Essentials by Monique
Flora & Foliage
For the Hyphen of it
Grandma Joan’s Choke Cherry Jelly
Humming Desert Alpacas
Hyer Wools
Joseph Morales Santos & Bultos
Le Paris French Bakery
Lori Gallegos
KNIT – Bobbie Sumberg
Kris Theoni Silks
Michelle Wiggins
Mountain Man Gourmet
Mora Valley Spinning
Mystic Earth
Purses by Prissy
Rio Fernando Farm
Santa Fe Honey Salon
TFG Soaps & Such
The Wool Shed
Tumbling Goat
Westfarthing Farm
Equina Wear
Try some delicious food from our in-house caterer YouthWorks!
Don’t forget to visit The Swallows Nest museum shop!
Thank you to all of our volunteers, participants and sponsors!!!
Partially funded by New Mexico Bank & Trust, New Mexico Arts, City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, Santa Fe New Mexican & Santa Fe County
2019 Schedule of Events
Traditional Ongoing Activities & Demonstrations
Saturday & Sunday
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Wool Dyeing using natural dyes
Las Golondrinas Weavers & Colcha Artists demonstrate their work
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum share their fiber program
Make your own tortilla on a comal
Make rope the old fashioned way
Hide Tanning & Flint Knapping
Native Fingerweaving
Learn about a day in the life of women with The Territorial Ladies of New Mexico
Learn about military camp life with the First New Mexico Volunteers
¡El Agua es Vida! Learn about historic acequias with the New Mexico Acequia Association (Saturday only)
See our historic mills running
Listen to the Alabados or hymns sang by Dexter Trujillo
Try some fresh baked horno bread
Make your own adobe bricks (Sunday only)
Trade & Barter in the Country General Store
Visit with the Rio Grande Mule & Donkey Association
See traditional plowing demonstrations
Enjoy the traditional musical styling of Julian Prada
See our Blacksmith hammering away in his shop
Visit our Carpenter as he whittles away
Enjoy Aguas Frescas by La Sociedad Folklorica
Visit our costumed interpreters in our many historic buildings on site
Saturday, June 1st
10:00 am to approx.11:30 am
Traditional San Isidro Mass & Procession
11:00 am, 1:00 pm & 3:00 pm
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center presents:
“Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture,” a documentary on this traditional folk art
11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Leather Stamping with Tandy Leather
12:00 pm, 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm
Sheep Shearing the old fashioned way
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Paper Weaving in the Cultural Craft Corner
12:30 pm
EntreFlamenco Youth Dancers perform
1:30 pm
Sociedad Colonial Española de Santa Fe dance group performs
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Stamp your own tin medallion
2:30 pm
Lighting Boy Hoop Dancers perform
Sunday, June 2nd
11:00 am, 1:00 pm & 3:00 pm
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center presents:
“Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture,” a documentary on this traditional folk art
11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Paper Weaving in the Cultural Craft Corner
11:00 to 2:00 pm
Leather Stamping with Tandy Leather
11:30 am
EntreFlamenco Youth Dancers perform
12:00 pm, 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm
Sheep Shearing the old fashioned way
1:00 pm
Bailé Español dance group performs
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Stamp your own tin medallion
2:30 pm
Lighting Boy Hoop Dancers perform
