American Wool Handbook
Title | American Wool Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Von Bergen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1176 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Wool |
ISBN |
Vanishing Fleece
Title | Vanishing Fleece PDF eBook |
Author | Clara Parkes |
Publisher | Abrams |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1683356829 |
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.
Wool Handbook
Title | Wool Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Werner von Bergen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Wool |
ISBN |
SID Sheep Production Handbook
Title | SID Sheep Production Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Animal culture |
ISBN | 9780974285702 |
The American Wool Manufacture
Title | The American Wool Manufacture PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur H. Cole |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Wool and Sheep Facts
Title | Wool and Sheep Facts PDF eBook |
Author | Frank P. Bennett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Sheep |
ISBN |
Wool
Title | Wool PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Hart |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-11-28 |
Genre | Wool |
ISBN | 9780764354311 |
Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. This book tells wool's colorful and surprisingly epic tale and how it has impacted millions of lives from immigrants, slaves, Native Americans, to farmers and advertisers. Author Hart reveals little-known but fascinating facts about US society--for example, how huge flocks of sheep were driven to the California gold fields to feed hungry miners, and why sheep grazed on the White House lawn during World War I. Moving from the realms of handcrafted artisanry to industrialization and back, Wool is a story of technological and social change, marketing forces, and above all, consumer choices. A must-read for anyone who has knitted socks, woven a tapestry, or curled up with a warm wool blanket.