02646cam a2200517 4500 2674049459 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781683356820 1683356829 B07NY2L4JH Amazon 5db5fd6f-8e75-4ef7-b7f5-088f7ef02909 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5005183 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Parkes, Clara. Vanishing Fleece [Libby eBook] : Adventures in American Wool. ABRAMS Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. crafting destinations. knitting destinations. knitting literature. Crafting traditions. knitting memoir. crafting memoir. knitting travel. Natural Fibers. sheep and wool. travel memoir. sheep farming. creative life. Wool industry. knitting life. textile arts. yarn makers. Fiber Arts. The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America's colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters 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. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Crafts. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5db5fd6f-8e75-4ef7-b7f5-088f7ef02909&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5db5fd6f-8e75-4ef7-b7f5-088f7ef02909&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS