Interwoven: A Week of Spinning & Weaving
Join Plimoth Patuxet the week of Monday, October 7th, to enjoy an expanded roster of spinning and weaving demonstrations across the Museums' Main Campus.
Thread Your Way Through History with Daily Enhancements for Guests the Week of Monday, October 7th
Guests visiting Plimoth Patuxet's Main Campus for the second week in October 2024, will enjoy enhanced daily offerings with their general admission tickets as the Museum hosts its first Spinning & Weaving Week. With broad support from the Museums' dedicated volunteers, weaving and spinning demonstrations across the historic sites will showcase the methods and ways the Indigenous and European people who lived along these historic shores of change in the 17th-century created textiles with various materials.
At the Craft Center
Daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Guests will enjoy fiber arts demonstrations including combing, knitting, and weaving wool from a romney fleece that was recently donated to the Museum by RH Lindsay. Additionally, the Nimble Fingers Crafting Nook will take over the Craft Center Classroom for the week. There will be large offering of hands-on crafts and learning experiences for children including weaving with paper, weaving tape on an inkle loom, spinning yarn on a drop spindle, and basic sewing stitches for beginnings.
At the Historic Patuxet Homesite
Daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Throughout the week guests will enjoy increased demonstrations with Native Knowledge Keepers and Artisans who will be weaving nets, belts, and baskets on the Historic Patuxet Homesite. In addition, visitors will enjoy learning about Indigenous weaving materials like milkweed, cedar, and nettle, and how they represent cultural ties to the land and waterways of this region. The Wampanoag People have lived in this region since time immemorial and their cultural traditions and heritage continue to be important practices of their modern community as they work to reclaim their culture.
At the 17th-Century English Village
Daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Everyday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. guests may experience how the Pilgrims kept-up with the laundering of their hand-crafted clothes and daily used linens. Later in the day from 12:30 p.m. to 1p.m., the Village's What to Wear in New England program will discuss the items of clothing that the Pilgrims chose to bring with them aboard the Mayflower in 1620. From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Brewster House, clothing care and mending will close out each day as the Museums' team shares with the guests the ways in which the Pilgrims maintained their valuable and limited wardrobe.