Crowd expected to flock to Friday wool festival

Kingston Wire, by Robyn Hagar 

October 17, 2025

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"KINGSTON - A Woolen Affair is coming to Kingston - and no, we aren't trying to lure you in with a catchy headline today, since this Friday the Red Hook-based fiber arts-focused day-long festival A Woolen Affair opens at its new home base at the Hutton Brickyards in Kingston.

 

A Woolen Affair is complex. Though it emphasizes the diverse range of the fiber arts industry with its 70-plus vendors, bearing both local and international roots, creator Catherine Clark, a midwife and owner of Brooklyn General Store, a successful fiber arts business of 23 years, said she wanted to create a festival that combined more than just your typical skein-laden and lanolin-scented fiber fest.

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To add to the allure, Clark wants the festival to feel like a "party" for fiber arts fanatics, with six live bands lined up, a hangout space with self-care practitioners such as astrologists, tattoo artists and tarot card readers, live educational classes focusing on different aspects of fiber arts, eight food trucks and more."  Read more here.