Lambtown 2026 – #1

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Large letters spell out LAMBTOWN and are propped on bales of sutra with orange pumpkins around.

Lambtown is the largest Sheep and Wool event in California and it is only ten minutes away from here. Lucky me!

Lambtown is open to everyone on the weekend. Before Lambtown officially starts there are full day classes on Thursday and Friday. I taught on Thursday because I spent all day Friday setting up my vendor booth and bringing sheep to the fairgrounds.

Five women holding looms with clasped warp projects they are working on in a class.

These are five of the nine students in my Clasped Warp and Clasped Weft class. They learned to dress the loom with clasped warp and spent the afternoon weaving a variety of ideas using the clasped weft technique.

Metal sheep with two large horns.

The only time I have to see the Lambtown vendors and sheep is before the festival opens in the morning. On Saturday I parked near the vendor hall and walked to the barn to feed my sheep that we delivered the previous evening. This is a sheep who lives at the fairgrounds permanently.

Wooden sheep with an arrow pointing to shearing demonstrations.

This sheep came just for the weekend.

Signs about Sheep Dog and Shearing Demos on straw bales with three pumpkins.

There are numerous events going on through the weekend.

Meridian Jacobs display pen with signs about Jacob sheep and the business.

We brought sheep to the barn Friday evening. Farm Club members set up the display early Saturday morning. They also showed the sheep on Sunday because I was in my vendor booth. There will be another blog post when I get photos.

Two Kerry Hill sheep looking up at the camera. They are white with black noses and eye spots.

There are a variety of breeds represented. The show for meat breeds was on Saturday and for wool breeds on Sunday. These sheep have Jacob markings on the face (sort of) but are Kerry Hill, a breed I had never seen.

Dorper sheep, white with black heads, in pens made of blue panels.

The Dorper is a hair sheep.

Naturally colored Shetland and California Red sheep.

Shetland sheep and California Reds shared a pen.

White faced sheep with green coat protecting fleece.

I did not have time to walk around the whole barn. From knowing some of the people showing I think there were a lot Corriedales and Merinos represented, but I don’t know which other breeds.

Sign about Traditional Tanners in Oregon advertising local , natural tanning services.

I had to get back to the vendor hall and was able to visit this booth in the barn only while they were still setting up. This is the tannery that is tanning all my lambskins now. Now that Lambtown is over I will list more on the website soon (I hope).

Wool roving dyed in many colors.

There is plenty of shopping in the Vendor Barn and two buildings. There was plenty of dyed fiber to spin or felt.

Wool yarn of all colors in boxes for viewing.

And of course there is plenty of wool yarn.

The back of a woman shopping for wool with a backpack carrying a small dog whose head is poking out the hole in the backpack.

I will share photos of my booth in another post, but for now I’ll show that shoppers come in all shapes. (This is my booth, but you can’t see much.)

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