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 ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

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.

From Texas Standard: In the 1950s and '60s, the idea that Texas would one day relinquish its position as the epicenter of the wool and mohair world must have felt unfathomable. Raising sheep and goats ...

Karen Hostetler stood in her wool mill on a Friday afternoon, surveying the machinery within the giant warehouse. “We didn’t envision this,” she said. “We envisioned something in our garage.” ...

While knitting and crocheting remain popular past-times on the Island there aren’t too many people who hand spin their own wool into yarn to do it. Philanthropist lawyer Michelle St. Jane is the ...

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, ...

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PALMER — Unable to find a domestic source of wool cloth, Thorndike Mills owners Ed and Mitchell Garabedian are shutting down their manufacturing plant and retail store nearly a century after their ...