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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...