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Welcome to Grafton Fibers

Our Mission

At Grafton Fibers we strive to provide heirloom quality tools and fibers to fiber artists worldwide using traditional tools and techniques in innovative ways - the Vermont way.  We are working toward providing enjoyable, meaningful jobs at a livable wage for our fellow Vermonters while creating a business that will allow us to be present in our children's lives.

About Our Products

We take pride in the manufacture of our fiber art tools.  When you hold one of our hooks, needles, or spindles in your hands, you are holding work that we have created with our hands.  We put a great deal of love and joy into each item we make as we love doing what we do, but also because we believe that energy will be passed on to our customers. 

We use Vermont wood products to create our work.  Our most used tools are our hands.  Our hooks, needles, and spindles are buffed and polished to a smooth sheen.  Working as we do, by hand and with superior Vermont wood products, eliminates the need for applying finishes that feel like plastic and hide the warmth of the wood. 

About Us

Grafton Fibers was begun in 2001 to help provide us with the means to purchase our home we currently share with three rapidly growing boys and five dogs.  Outside you'll find a couple of chickens (a mink  wreaked havoc on our chickens this year), half a dozen angora rabbits and one mini rex (who needs an indoor home - holler if you can provide same), sixteen sheep including Lincolns, Corriedales, Shetlands, Navajo-Churro, Cheviot, and Cheviot-Black Welsh Mountain and Cheviot-Shetland crosses, and one gorgeous guard llama.

Linda has spent a lifetime working with color.  She began weaving as a child and has exhibited off and on since the mid seventies.  Spinning began in earnest after the boys came along.  Linda was looking for a relaxing activity, and at a friend's urging she took up spinning and has been hooked ever since.

Tom was an art exhibitions designer for many years, and served as a consultant to art collectors, corporations, arts organizations and artists.  (He's also an excellent massage therapist, incredible guitarist, singer, and songwriter)  He began his woodturning career in order to supply Linda with spindle whorls.  The rest is history.  He brings his artistic eye and sense of design into all he creates, but he remains conscious of the fiber artist's need for comfort in tool design.

Tom and Linda Diak