Across Europe and North America, the picture is bleak: wool is often burned or discarded because processing costs outweigh ...

Learn how to process wool by following the satisfying process of turning wool into finished products. Today, New Hampshire and Vermont are best known for skiing and dairy cattle, but that wasn’t ...

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, ...

The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair ...

When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia Ranch, her business in British Columbia, she did it with a direct interest in fiber art. Today, she has a flock of 25 sheep, mostly ...