Fibershed Galas – Fibershed

Fibershed Gala: The Practice of Belonging

Join us in practice on Saturday, September 28, 2019, from 2:00 – 7:00 pm for an immersive Fibershed Gala that cultivates mindful textile cultures by honoring soil-to-soil practice. Presented amidst the expansive views and fragrant gardens of Chileno Valley Ranch, a 150-year-old farmstead just 20 minutes west of Petaluma, CA the Fibershed Gala illuminates the pathways of participation in regional fiber and dye systems that restore our climate, working landscapes, and our relationships in the community.

Climate Beneficial Fashion Gala

On September 23, 2017, our Fibershed community showcased the explorations, developments, and garments that transform our clothing into a means of building soil and reversing climate change. Many of the garments created by the designers in the evening’s show were made with the first finely woven Climate Beneficial Wool that our state has ever produced. Bare Ranch is the source for the Rambouillet wool that was woven by our region’s first mechanical weaving mill—Huston Textile Company opened their doors in May of 2017. The project represents a strong potential for how we can grow value for protein fiber producers in our state with a material that has for too long been disregarded as an economic by-product. This project to create a fine wool cloth not only restores economic value to regionally produced and raised fibers, but addresses the land management associated with those fibers. (Photos by Paige Green)

Fibershed Fashion Gala

Fibershed’s inaugural Fashion Gala in 2013 celebrated our regional ‘soil-to-skin’ design, utilizing raw farmed fiber from our local ‘Greater Bay Area’ farm and rangelands. Groups of local designers and farmers created some spectacular garments for the fashion show that beautifully express the language of our landscape, and are made entirely of wool and organic cotton grown on local farms, and dyed with locally grown natural dyes. Given the state of our synthetic and exploitative fashion industry, the a Fibershed Fashion Gala is a vital articulation of a working alternative to ‘fast fashion’ that models support for our local artisans, farmers, ranchers, and the health and wellbeing of our community of wearers. (Photos by Paige Green)

model on the runway at the fashion gala, photo by Paige Green