Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

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9781419735318
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1419735314
ISBN-13
9781419735318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038573138

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vanishing Fleece : Adventures in American Wool
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Needlework / Knitting, General, Fiber Arts & Textiles
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Crafts & Hobbies
Author
Clara Parkes
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Trade
LCCN
2018-958831
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Given my hatred of puns, I absolutely do not want to say Clara Parkes spins an incredible yarn, but how else to describe this incredible book? Parkes is the Marc Kurlansky of wool!
Dewey Decimal
338.4767731
Synopsis
A fast-paced account of the year 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.
LC Classification Number
MLCS 2021/45259 (H)

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