Craft Vendor Application

Please read through terms & conditions. IMPORTANT- Please use discount code "Crafter 2025" to bypass the payment. We will not accept payment until you have selected your booth(s). Returning vendors from 2024 festival will be accepted on July 7, 2025 and all other vendors will be accepted on July 9, 2025 at the Citizens Resource Center, 1303 Dallas Cherryville Hwy, Dallas, NC. 

All goods must be handmade or handcrafted. If you are unsure if your item(s) fall under the handmade/handcrafted category, please call us at 704-922-2164.

We offer great facilities for craft vendors. The craft vendors are set up in vacant, clean horse stalls with overhead cover, lights, electricity, and running water. We have police security in the park day and night, and most vendors choose to leave their wares overnight in their booths. We assign spaces first come, first served. When all craft vendors are in place, the Arts and Craft Area resembles storefronts, each booth with an outside and inside the area. The Craft Vendor fee is $40 for all Barns for all three days of the festival, please note that crafters are not required to attend all three days.

1.All Arts & Crafts must be handcrafted! The exhibitor must be the originator of the items being sold no “buy/sell”. Gourmet foods must be homemade items, not pre-purchased foods, with Health Department approval.

2.Exhibitors will be assigned a 12’ X 12’ outdoor horse stall covered space with electrical outlets. Stalls will be cleaned by maintenance staff before your arrival and a walk through can be conducted on Thursday October 10, 2024. Stalls will be rented out AS IS. No additional cleaning or service will be performed by maintenance staff. Horse stalls are rustic, open outdoor shelter used primarily for housing horses during horse shows. The floor of the stall is made up of wood shavings.  Due to fire code, vendors may not block the walkway underneath the stalls with their merchandise. Festivalgoers must be able to walk from one stall to the next without having to walk out from under the covered walkway.

3.All assignments are made first come, first served.

4.Exhibitors will need to provide all materials/equipment for set-up (tables, chairs, backdrops, etc.).

5.The exhibitor display should in no way harm, destroy, or leave lasting evidence.

6.Each exhibitor must furnish his or her own sign to identify the booth.

7.The festival opens to patrons each day at 10 AM and closes at approximately 5 PM. You may set your own hours for your booth; however, you must be in park limits and parked in designated areas, no later than 9 AM on Saturday and Sunday. Once front gate is closed on Saturday, no vehicle is allowed to drive through festival.

8.A non-refundable fee of $40 will be charged to all spaces. The fee is the same regardless of whether you set up for one, two, or three days.

9.Cotton Ginning Days is held rain or shine – no fees will be refunded in the event of inclement weather.

10.Crafters are responsible for the behavior of the guest they have with them at their booths, this includes children. Please be considerate of the crafters and their merchandise.

11.Please be respectful of your fellow crafters and other festival vendor and exhibitors.

12.Dogs on a 6-foot, non-retractable leash, are allowed to accompany you to the festival. Per the Gaston County Park Ordinance, no other animals are allowed on park grounds.

13.No costumes, unless you have prior approval, specifically that cover the face or character heads.

14.Limit to three spaces per crafter.