Making a natural fiber like wool into something useful like a sweater involves a lot of steps. We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving, but ...

When Donna Putnam began raising border collies and training them to herd sheep, she would often come home with wool scraps. Putnam decided to take a spinning class to learn how to use the scraps to ...

Waltin (Knit (Spin) Sweden!) delivers an informative guide to spinning wool from start to finish. First, she discusses wool characteristics of various sheep breeds, pointing out that the Gute sheep’s ...

You sometimes can’t even imagine what you don’t know about a subject until you talk to an expert. Enter Marcail McWilliams, owner of Valley Oak Wool and Fiber Mill and expert about all things wool.

Master spinners are offering instruction at the new studio and classroom run by the Fiber Arts Guild at the Walk in Art Center, Schuylkill Haven. The studio is for spinning fiber and knitting. Margi ...

The way a garment is manufactured plays a critical role in determining the volume of microfibers it will release throughout a lifetime of wash and wear. Fiber composition and yarn spinning systems ...

CARLINVILLE — Peggy Graham, a longtime Carlinville resident, will demonstrate her wool spinning techniques during a free, one-hour program at the Carlinville Public Library at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, ...