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Vanishing Fleece - Adventures in American Wool

Clara Parkes

Publisher: ABRAMS Press

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Summary

The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. 
 
Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins.  
 
In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
Available since: 10/01/2019.
Print length: 194 pages.

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