Vanishing Fleece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vanishing Fleece write by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Vanishing Fleece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Knitlandia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knitlandia write by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2016-02-16. Knitlandia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Spider Woman's Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spider Woman's Children write by Barbara Teller Ornelas. This book was released on 2018. Spider Woman's Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
A Stash of One's Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Stash of One's Own write by Clara Parkes. This book was released on 2017-09-12. A Stash of One's Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
This Golden Fleece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Golden Fleece write by Esther Rutter. This book was released on 2020-06. This Golden Fleece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of Britain's long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.
