Description: Title: Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool Author: Parkes, Clara Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Binding: Paperback Pages: 192 Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.70d Product Weight: 0.45 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781419735370 Vanishing Fleece is a fast-paced account of the year New York Times bestselling author Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way. Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin ("the most knitterly state") and back again; along the way, she presents a behind-the-scenes look at the spinners, scourers, genius inventors, and crazy-complex mill machines that populate the yarn-making industry. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Simply put, no other book exists that explores American culture through the lens of wool. "While I laughed and loved Clara's prose, I was left with so much more. It's actually a lovely and melancholy look at an American industry that's quickly changing, and a beautiful story of the people who are sacrificing to maintain it." --Judy Greer, actor, director, and author of I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star
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Book Title: Vanishing Fleece : Adventures in American Wool
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Needlework / Knitting, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Fiber Arts & Textiles
Item Height: 1.4 in
Genre: Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Clara Parkes
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
