Vanishing Fleece : Adventures in American Wool.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkes, Clara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wool industry--United States.

Wool industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2022.

New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2019.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Girl Meets Bale

Chapter 1. Wool Harvest

Chapter 2. Double Bubble Bale and Trouble

Chapter 3. Infiltrating Big Wool

Chapter 4. Moving Bodies

Chapter 5. Ready to Roll

Chapter 6. Bartlett Bound

Chapter 7. The Stradivarius of Salvage

Chapter 8. Journey to the Heart of the Madder

Chapter 9. Rust Belt Revival

Chapter 10. Tree House Confessions

Chapter 11. Saved by the Ball

Chapter 12. Halloween Spooktacular at the Haunted Dyehouse

Chapter 13. Casting Off

Acknowledgments

Index of Searchable Terms.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781683356820

1683356829

OCLC:

1121136404