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 ...

The Back-to-Back Wool Challenge is an international competition involving an eight-person team, one that shears a sheep, and seven that spin the wool. The spun wool is then made into a sweater ...

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 ...

“We shear them for the public, and then we go over everything from the shearing, then people can see us card the wool and get it ready for spinning to make it into yarn.” Park livestock ...

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 ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. The women sat in a circle with their spinning wheels, transforming big fluffy clouds of wool into yarn. Some were knitting afghans or hats; all were ...

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 ...