Bibliograph

Vanishing fleece, adventures in American wool, Clara Parkes

Type

Label

Vanishing fleece, adventures in American wool, Clara Parkes

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Vanishing fleece

Oclc number

1086015604

Responsibility statement

Clara Parkes

Sub title

adventures in American wool

Summary

Join Parkes on a cross-country adventure 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, she meets the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Wool harvest -- Double bubble bale and trouble -- Infiltrating Big Wool -- Moving bodies -- Ready to roll - Bartlett bound -- The Stradivarius of salvage -- Journey to the heart of the Madder -- Rust Belt revival -- Tree house confessions -- Saved by the ball -- Halloween spooktacular at the haunted dyehouse -- Casting off

Target audience

adult

Classification