The award-winning
Waterford Homes Tour & Crafts Exhibit

October 1, 2 & 3, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Waterford Fair is the oldest juried crafts fair in Virginia and winner of the 2007 Loudoun Convention & Visitors Association (LCVA) Best Event of the Year. View a video about the fair. In addition to historic homes open for tour, 155 juried heritage craftspeople (many nationally known) provide hands-on demonstrations, entertainers provide continuous traditional music and dance, Colonial and Civil War-era militia encamp and demonstrate, and there are children's activities throughout the weekend.

The proceeds from the Fair are used to carry out the Waterford Foundation's mission of education and preservation.

Don’t miss the raffle! Two gorgeous items from longtime exhibitors are highlights of the Fair.

One-hundred fifty-five artisans, many nationally known, will demonstrate techniques of traditional craftsmanship.

Federal brick houses, spacious Victorian homes, simple Quaker buildings and small log structures, barns, Civil War and Quaker cemeteries, an old mill and a one-room schoolhouse are open during the Fair.

Three floors of juried handcrafts for sale in a restored brick mill. Vintage barns transformed into galleries for paintings, sketches, photographs and dried flowers. The Country Store offers homemade breads, cookies, handblown glassware and the Waterford tote bag.

A Revolutionary War militia camps in Waterford. A fife and drum corps marches through the narrow streets. Civil War soldiers reenact a past battle. And there is music everywhere—string bands, troubadours, barbershop, gospel, classical, folk, traditional.

The Fair is a magical place for children!
Many of our artisans' demonstrations of their crafts will especially delight children, who might help make a pot or a special bookmark, be enchanted by a magician or mesmerized by a mime, or ride a country wagon filled with hay.

Tickets

Advance tickets may be ordered by mail, phone or online at the price of $13 per person from August 10 through September 22. Advance tickets may also be purchased through Thursday, October 1, at the Waterford Foundation office, or any of our local ticket outlets. More

How to participate in the Fair

If you would like to volunteer, enter your art or photographs, sell your crafts on consignment at the Old Mill, or demonstrate and sell your craft during the Fair, please go to our participation page.