These good-natured master craftspeople are the winners of the 6th Annual Vermont Fine Furniture & Woodworking Festival.  Find out who they are and see their award winning furniture and accessories on VWMA’s  Flickr page.

Vermont woodworkers: the 10th Annual Vermont Fine Furniture Festival is upon us.  Hard to believe it’s been ten years since VWMA (the Vermont Wood Manufacturer’s Association) first led the initiative to share Vermont’s exquisitely beautiful handmade wood furniture with the rest of the world.  Kathleen Wanner and a number of other visionaries in the Vermont wood working community began work in 2003 on what is now one of the Top 10 Fall Events in New England.  It’s the Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival and woodworkers throughout the Green Mountain State are encouraged to participate.

This year the Fine Furniture Festival is being held September 28-29 in Woodstock, Vermont at the Union Arena.  Woodworkers can contact Erin Lorentz at VWMA to register for the show and/or the annual design competition (more about that later).  Just to let fellow Vermont woodworkers know… the show really has an expansive reach.  In addition to hundreds of craftsmanship fans from New England you may well meet customers from across America, Canada and beyond.  We had a couple from California come to visit us at the festival a few years ago and we’ve run into shoppers from Alberta, UK and Germany as well.  Vermont fine furniture has a good reputation and a far reach!

The woodworking festival is paired with the Forest Festival at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park on the same weekend and free shuttle buses run between the two locations.  This gives visitors a chance to see and experience the sustainable forests of Vermont that supply the wood our furniture is made of.  I can’t think of a better way for visitors to spend a sunny Autumn day, than taking in these two quintessential Vermont festivals.  Be a part of it!

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