The TAFA Market



TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List has continued to grow into a beautiful organization full of eye candy for the lover of textiles and fiber arts.  We are having our first public event in Paducah, Kentucky during our annual quilt show.  TAFA members are sending in textiles and fiber products for exhibit and we are having a silent auction, vendors and a raffle. 

We have two big goals:  to introduce our members to the public and to raise money for our new website.  TAFA is currently hosted on a Blogger platform which we have outgrown.  The new site will have a powerful search engine with image based results.

For more information, click on the following links:

• TAFA Market details
• Silent Auction (we have an online version for those of you who can't make it)
• Raffle (also an online version)
• Rayela Art:  I am using my blog to feature the exhibitors, vendors and other things which will be going…

http://tafalist.com

Do you love textiles and fiber art? If so, you will definitely want to make your way over to TAFA, an organization I launched in February of 2010. TAFA's members, now numbering over 200, are either working artists or have small businesses

that sell textiles from around the world. Each member has a profile

which gives a thumbnail sketch of what they do and where they can be

found on the web. The use of social media is our core marketing

approach, so we can also be found on Facebook (where we have a large, supportive following), Twitter, Flickr and other places.

TAFA's goal is to grow into a virtual database of fiber art and textile businesses, a place where designers, collectors, corporate buyers, shoppers, writers, and anyone who is

interested in textiles and fiber art will go to when they search for

interesting work. We seek to be both international and diverse in scope.

One of my goals was to lessen the divide between contemporary fiber art

and cultural textiles, giving the same importance to a weaver from

Guatemala as to one living in Santa Fe. As TAFA has grown, this diversity has made it one of the few places where both share the same platform.

There are many subgroups within TAFA that will evolve into programming for those members. The first of these has been the formation of an Etsy Team as almost half of TAFA's members…

TAFA, The Textile And Fiber Art List is a new venture that helps fiber art and textile businesses reach a larger market. Using a blog format, each member is highlighted in a member post with information on their work or product, their social media connections and a bio. There is more information on the site about becoming a member (Click the membership link).

TAFA now has a classifieds page as a service to the fiber art/textile community. Advertise workshops, classes, for sale items, shows, etc.

If nothing else, you are guaranteed a lot of eye candy!