Roc Day or St. Distaff's Day

Distaff Day

Feast day

 Roc Day is celebrated by spinners and weavers as well as other fiber enthusiasts all over the worl.  It is a gathering of friends with common interestes in fibers...a celebration of the New Year, specifically for their art, and a way of paying homage to the past.

Happy treadling!

Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany. It is also known as Saint Distaff's Day, one of the many unofficial holidays in Catholic nations. Wikipedia

Date: 7 January

"Partly work and partly play
You must on St. Distaffs Day:
From the plough soon free your team;
Then cane home and fother them: 
If the maids a-spinning go, 
Burn the flax and fire the tow. 
Bring in pails of water then, 
Let the maids bewash the men. 
Give St. Distaff' all the right:
Then bid Christmas sport good night,
And next morrow every one 
To his own vocation."