Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool - Paperback

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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool - Paperback

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool - Paperback

by Clara Parkes
$15.99
$15.99

Book Overview

Vanishing Fleece is a fast-paced account of the year New York Times bestselling author 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, you'll 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.

"While I laughed and loved Clara's prose, I was left with so much more. It's actually a lovely and melancholy look at an American industry that's quickly changing, and a beautiful story of the people who are sacrificing to maintain it." --Judy Greer, actor, director, and author of I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star
ISBN9781419735370
Author Clara Parkes
PublisherAbrams Press
GenreBiography and Hobbies & interests
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Clara Parkes

A lifelong knitter, Clara Parkes has spent more than 10 years immersed in the world of yarn and fiber as the publisher of KnittersReview.com. A frequent contributor to Interweave Knits and Twist Collective, she is also the author of The Knitter's Book of Yarn and The Knitter's Book of Wool. She lives on the coast of Maine in a farmhouse full of yarn.

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