HOLDEN, Maine (WABI) - In May, TV5 covered the Mainely Spinners as they competed in the International Back to Back Wool Challenge where they had to shear a sheep, spin its wool, and knit a sweater ...

Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three spinners, and a weaver. The team has three hours to shear the sheep, card the wool, spin the wool into yarn, and then weave ...

After seven years of building our yarn line, this is the first time every part of the process — from shearing to spinning — ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Mainely Spinners, a club that creates wool fiber art, spent all day Saturday competing in the 28th annual International Back to Back Wool Challenge. The team started in the ...

once she fixes up the wool spinner she has sitting at home. In Central Oregon, the fiber arts community — people who produce and craft goods from natural materials — is healthy and continuing ...

wool spinners and craftspeople. “What Shetland Wool Week did was offer us a shop window to an international audience, which we probably would have had great difficulty finding,” said Ronnie ...

Knowing that sheep breeders in Vermont were selling their wool to a Wool Pool and receiving almost nothing for it, the idea of a local spinning mill began to germinate. They talked with Lisa Merton, a ...

A sixty-two-year-old man, a wool spinner, entered the hospital because of hemoptysis. For many years the patient had had "bronchial trouble," with cough, gradually increasing dyspnea and ...

When operational, it will spin and card any wool or alpaca fibre. That will make their company fully circular and sustainable. At Showcase recently Ériu presented new blends of worsted yarn in ...