Learn how to process wool by following the satisfying process of turning wool into finished products. Today, New Hampshire and Vermont are best known for skiing and dairy cattle, but that wasn’t ...

Indiana is home to roughly 2,000 sheep farms and over 50,000 head of sheep, making the state number 28 for sheep production in the U.S. Even with Indiana’s bountiful flocks, however, it’s unlikely you ...

Some people have a nose for whiskey. Jenn Phillips has a nose for wool. "I can smell a fleece and tell if it’s good, and depending on the scent, it’ll be nice and sweet," Phillips said. The Amity ...

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...

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Black sheep have traditionally been bred out of merino flocks, with fibre contamination an issue for the industry Three women are bucking the trend, breeding black merinos and processing the wool in ...

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

SAUNDERS COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Instead of a paintbrush, Rhonda McClure uses a needle. Her canvas is a piece of felt, and her paint is hand-dyed wool. “All the wool that we sell here is grown on site, ...

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