Tapestry Arts

I went to the Tapestry Arts festival this year with my boyfriend, my best friend, and her little sisters. It was funny because I did not see any tapestry arts and its a Tapestry Arts festival! Haha. Anyway, the food was really good… pricy. but really good. It’s a good place to take your kids, nieces, nephews out because they have a little arts and crafts section for the kids to enjoy.

Wow this festival has shrunk! It used to be huge and now its so much smaller! We went on Sunday and folks were not too lively or even drunk. We got the typical chicken skewers, beer and glass of wine. The beer wasn’t great since it was Michelob but my hubby got over it. My wine was some random brand from Morgan Hill and it was not good! Pass next time!
Booths has tons of usual stuff: Art, jewelry, clothing, random kitchen stuff inside that had folks selling windows and homepathic remedies. RANDOM! We were done in about and hour and half and saw some odd folks who looked like they were 12 with with two kids! The one thing that was cool was the ice cream truck where I got this yummy coconut fruit bar and my hubby enjoyed his Dreyers ice cream bar. We paid double but it was so nice to eat as we left.

I finally went to the Tapestry in Talent this year and I didn’t think it was all that great. I did enjoy the music, the kettle corn was good but the most fun I had was watching people pay 5 – 10 bucks so that they could try to climb a «rock» and try to grab the $ 100 that was at the top… when I finally left after watching several people try… the $ 100 was still up there.

Since I have been old enough to hand over the charge card on my own… I have been coming almost annually to the Tapestry in Talent festival in SJ. It’s every year on Labor Day weekend in DT SJ.
Imagine all of the local art and wine festivals, but on crack. Anyone who was any booth vendor would come hawk their wares here at this festival. If you only went to one all year, it should have been this one.
Well that’s the way it used to be anyway. They would shut down most of downtown and the festival would span many of the big streets… a lot like the Jazz Festival earlier in the summer.
Now the festival seems to be dwindling year after year, until this year it was only the long main street of Market with a few little tentacles reaching into the side streets near San Fernando and Park. There used to be oodles and oodles of food vendors with goodies as far as the eye can see, now there are only about 10 – 15. No House of Lumpia either, so sad!
The booths are your typical arts and crafts festival fare, but this year I did manage to find an awesome new business that I bought a few organic bamboo tshirt goodies from. They have an etsy store so I can’t wait to buy some more goodies from them. The weather was perfect for once, not too hot and with a nice breeze. A watermelon freeze and kebab on a stick made my day.
Please beef yourself back up Tapestry in Talent… the fact that you are smaller each and every year makes me worry that one year not too far ahead you might go the way of the Santa Clara County Fair and cease to exist as we remember you entirely.