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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

English

By (author): Clara Parkes

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way 

Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets 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; along the way, she presents a behind-the-scenes look at the spinners, scourers, genius inventors, and crazy-complex mill machines that populate the yarn-making industry. By the end of the book, youll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Simply put, no other book exists that explores American culture through the lens of wool.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 140mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Oct 2020
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781419735370

About Clara Parkes

Author of six books including the New York Times bestselling Knitlandia Clara Parkes has dedicated her life to figuring out what makes yarn tickand finding the right words to write about it. Through her writings workshops and appearances Clara champions the notion of paying closer attention to what you knit and where it came from. She lives in Portland Maine.

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