BE PART OF 2026 FESTIVAL

Join the 5th Karoo Winter Wool Festival!

From 3rd - 4th July 2026, we invite businesses, artisans, service providers, and wool enthusiasts to celebrate South Africa’s vibrant wool industry. This festival promotes local, sustainable products that showcase the Karoo’s natural resources, including wool and mohair. Expect a celebration of slow fashion, craftsmanship, and innovation, along with authentic Karoo food and drink.

Applications are subject to approval, and successful applicants will receive an invoice to secure their stall or workshop space. Be part of this growing natural fibre community—support local, connect with industry leaders, and embrace the beauty of wool!

We put alot of enphasis on authenticity, the karoo expierence and the stories behind the bussinesses that exhibit at the wool festival. We aspire to grow a strong supportive environment. 

Date: 

Friday 3rd July - 09:00 am - 17:00 

Saturday 4th July - 09:00am - 17:00 

Venue: 

Dwarsvlei Guest House and Function Venue on the N9 between Middelburg and Graaff Reneit, Eastern Cape 

Stall Admission: 

Dependant on positioning: - view form for more detailed information. 

Once your application has been accepted we will send you an invoice with the necessary details to make payment to confirm your stall at KWWF, along with the indeminity form and vendor specific details. 

Expect response on your application by 1st February 2026.

The stall allocations will be made on a first come, first serve basis. 

VENDOR FORM

we look forward to hearing from you. 

Contact info@karoowinterwoolfestival.com for more information. 

WORKSHOPS / DEMONSTRATIONS 

The Karoo Winter Wool Festival is all about celebrating wool and natural fibres. Part of this celebration is sharing knowledge and skills with fellow natural fibre enthusiasts. We would like everyone to leave the the festival feeling like they have learned something new. For this reason the workshop and demonstration program is very important to us. 

WORKSHOPS 

Workshops will be held on the Thursday 2nd July 2026 to Saturday the 4th July 2026. There will be 12 workshops held a day at different venues at Dwarsvlei Function Venue.  Please be aware that the workshop venues can only fit maximum 8  people in each venue (including the workshop holder). 

We encourage you to have between 5 and 8 people in your workshop and to develop a workshop that incorporates natural fibres for all ability levels. 

The Workshop Fees will be R800 per workshop to cover the venue hire, chairs, tables and other venue necessities as well as the marketing of the workshop on the KWWF workshop program and general program and social media platforms. All workshops will be held on the festival terrain this year making it a lot more central. The workshop holder will be responsible for managing the sale of their tickets as this will reduce the administration cost and ensure that the workshop holders are able to receive their fees as the tickets are sold. This also allows more communication between the workshop holders and the workshop attendees from an early stage. 

Once your application for a workshop has been approved, we will begin the advertising of your workshop and add it to the workshop programme due to be published early 2026.

DEMONSTRATIONS 

We will be introducing a deonstration programme to our list were we ask artisans, creative enthusiats and natural fibre lovers to spend maximum 1 hour demonstrating a skill or presenting an idea or service. This will be a space for a more condenced educational knowledge sharing opportunity. Demonstrations can include mending of knitwear, caring for wool, spinning of wool by hand, basics of knitting, basics of crocheting etc. 

Demonstrations will take place on Friday 3rd July and Saturday 4th July 2026 at Dwarsvlei Farm as part of the Karoo Winter Wool festival Market program. 

There will be no tickets sold for demonstrations and no fee charged to demonstration holders. 

You will be notified if your demonstration application has been accepted and where you will be situated on the program between the time of 10:00am  and 17:00 pm.

Contact info@karoowinterwoolfestival.com for more information. 

VENDOR FORM