GUILFORD — The 12th annual Guilford Studio Holiday Sale, featuring gift items made by local artists and farmers, takes place at the weaving studio of Carol Schnabel, 410 Green River Rd., on Friday, Nov. 18 from 3 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In celebration of Guilford's 250th anniversary, photographer Lois Pancake has put together a book of historic photographs of Green River village, complete with a map identifying the houses shown in the photographs. Her own pictures will be featured on cards, gift tags, and calendars.
Schnabel has been weaving for more than 30 years. She also leads artist-in-residence programs at area schools and teaches weaving classes at her studio. Recently she has been using rug-braiding techniques in her work. She will be selling scarves, placemats, shawls, pillows, table runners, and braided bags and baskets.
Nancy Detra continues to document the joys and tribulations of the Vermont housewife on greeting cards and in small framed paintings. She will also offer for sale paintings of the Guilford landscape, including several clothesline pictures. She will show a new line of hand-painted angel ornaments.
Farmer Mary Ellen Franklin will sell wood-fired maple products produced on the Franklin Farm in South Guilford. The Franklins have been farming in Guilford since 1760, and David and Mary Ellen Franklin and their three sons now milk 45 mixed-breed organic cows and raise all the hay for the milking herd and young stock to eat.
On their diversified, organic farm, the Franklins sell maple products, beef, and eggs. Last year, the farm enjoyed one of its best maple sugaring years ever, and the Franklins will offer syrup in both fancy glass jars and plastic jugs.
Judy Sopenski of Not Your Ordinary Farm, on the Weatherhead Hollow Road, will offer locally grown and processed merino wool. The yarn, available in a rich cocoa brown color in DK weight, is processed at Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney. She will also sell knitting kits.
Sopenski will also offer Canadian bacon and a selection of sausages. The farm raises pork, lamb, chicken, and duck, and she will take orders for winter chicken and duck.
Shari Zabriskie, a potter and Guilford resident, is an associate member of the Brattleboro Clayworks on Putney Road in Brattleboro, where she teaches children's classes.
Zabriskie also teaches at the high school summer program at Landmark College, and she produces high-fire white stoneware, with birch pots as her latest design.
Josh and Marta Bernbaum design and create unique glass work in their studio in West Brattleboro.
Josh Bernbaum was part of a collaboration with basketmaker Jackie Abrams which was featured in the summer exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center.
Both have pieces in the current museum show, a group effort combining the talents of local glass artists and area children. This year, they will again have ornaments available for sale.
The studio sale this year recognizes 250 years of creativity and resourcefulness in town. Four of this year's sale participants were also represented in the Guilford Art and Craft Show that took place in October.