RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Sheep and knowledge are the gifts that keep on giving for spinners who turn wool into yarn at the Dutchess County Fair, where a craft that arrived in the community hundreds of years ...

In White River Junction, among a bevy of hulking metal machines, Amanda Kievet and Peggy Allen are making yarn. In April, the pair opened Junction Fiber Mill, a boutique mill to process fleece from ...

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 ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – The Dutchess County Fair has plenty of activities that will make your head spin, but the practice of turning wool into yarn also involves some amount of dexterity with hands and feet ...

DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. — Walt Bartnikowski will never forget the first time he spun raw wool into yarn. “I knew this was something I would do the rest of my life,” said Walt, who has sold his hats to ...

STROMSBURG, Neb. (KOLN) - The owner of a Stromsburg business is offering important services to small producers with Nebraska’s only custom wool mill. 10/11 met with Kelsey Quandt, who is the owner The ...

PUTNEY — In 1980, Claire Wilson, a soft-spoken Quaker now in her 90s and still living in Putney, met in a study group of 12 or so folks at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro.

Kentwool has been spinning wool into luxury yarn for five generations — 179 years. For almost seven decades, the yarn has been manufactured in Pickens. Yet many people don’t realize that Kentwool is ...

A new course in Leitrim aims to keep the timeless tradition of handspinning wool alive. The Organic Centre in Leitrim is hosting an exciting workshop with Eimear O Neill entitled 'Introduction to Wool ...

DISCOVERIES ALONG THE WAY. IN WILTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, A LOCAL COUPLE IS RETURNING TO THE NEW ENGLAND TRADITION OF TEXTILE PRODUCTION, ALBEIT ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE. WE TAKE IN WOOL FROM CUSTOMERS, ...

Blue Hen Blankets & Yarn, established in 2009, are made from wool shorn from the University of Delaware’s flock of Dorset sheep at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Wool is a natural, ...