Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

My friend Steve and I took a field trip to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival (flockandfiberfestival.com) this past Fall because we both like yarn and we both really dig goats. Besides providing an ...

If you are the owner of a small flock of sheep, what are you doing with your fleeces? Rosemary Champion, a well-known smallholder from Carnoustie, in Angus, has a flock of coloured Ryeland sheep and, ...

The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair on March 30 was an opportunity for people to see the entire process of making wool into yarn. Beginning with the shearing of the sheep, to spinning the yarn and creating ...

Pam Allen is puzzling over two skeins of yarn. Standing in the Quince & Co. warehouse aerie in Portland’s West End on a sunny winter morning, surrounded by thousands of yards of colorful yarn, she ...

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning — the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn — is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

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