Vanishing Fleece

2019-10-01 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Clara Parkes
Release : 2019-10-01
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Vanishing Fleece by : Clara Parkes

Download or read book Vanishing Fleece written by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knitlandia

2016-02-16 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Clara Parkes
Release : 2016-02-16
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Knitlandia by : Clara Parkes

Download or read book Knitlandia written by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2016-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned knitter and author of The Yarn Whisperer spins tales of a creative life enriched by world travel in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In Knitlandia, Parkes invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, through seventeen of her most memorable journeys across the globe. Her knitting adventures span from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently volume that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively.

Spider Woman's Children

2018 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Barbara Teller Ornelas
Release : 2018
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Spider Woman's Children by : Barbara Teller Ornelas

Download or read book Spider Woman's Children written by Barbara Teller Ornelas. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.

A Stash of One's Own

2017-09-12 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Clara Parkes
Release : 2017-09-12
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Stash of One's Own by : Clara Parkes

Download or read book A Stash of One's Own written by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology from the author of The Yarn Whisperer, twenty-one devoted knitters examine a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancies. With her trademark wit, Clara Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping and knitting life—from KonMari minimalist to joyous collector, designer to dyer, spinner to social worker, scholar to sheep farmer. Whether the yarn stash is muse, memento, creative companion, career guide, or lifeline in tough times, these deeply engaging stories take a fascinating look at why we collect, what we cherish, and how we let go. Contributors include New York Times–bestselling authors Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and Debbie Stoller, Meg Swansen and Franklin Habit, Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Adrienne Martini, and a host of others. Named one of the top ten lifestyle books for fall 2017 by Publisher’s Weekly.

This Golden Fleece

2020-06 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Esther Rutter
Release : 2020-06
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 363/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis This Golden Fleece by : Esther Rutter

Download or read book This Golden Fleece written by Esther Rutter. This book was released on 2020-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Britain's long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.

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