When Donna Putnam began raising border collies and training them to herd sheep, she would often come home with wool scraps. Putnam decided to take a spinning class to learn how to use the scraps to ...

Some people have a nose for whiskey. Jenn Phillips has a nose for wool. "I can smell a fleece and tell if it’s good, and depending on the scent, it’ll be nice and sweet," Phillips said. The Amity ...

Dallas woman spends decades spinning angora for Sheep to Shawl Karen Lamb, of Dallas, has been spinning angora rabbit fur at the Willamette Heritage Center's Sheep to Shawl event for roughly 20 years.

Photo by Madeline Scarborough Pam Hoskins demonstrates how to spin sheep wool into thread and then yarn on her Scottish haldane at the Scottish and Celtic Heritage Festival on Saturday in Parkersburg.

Finnsheep lambs were some of the live animals at the sixth annual Wool Frolic at Landis Valley Farm Museum on Saturday, September 14, 2019. Finnsheep, which are native to Finland, are some of the many ...

The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair on March 30 was an opportunity for people to see the entire process of making wool into yarn. Beginning with the shearing of the sheep, to spinning the yarn and creating ...

CLERMONT — The promise of learning how to shear sheep’s wool and spin it into yarn attracted some to Clermont State Historic Site Saturday; others came to the Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Showcase for ...

CHESTERVILLE — The Illinois Amish Heritage Center under development on 5 acres along Illinois Route 133 between Chesterville and Arthur will hold a sheep-shearing and wool-spinning event from 9 a.m.

After brushing the billowy, thick white fur of her Angora rabbit Mollie, Karen Lamb feeds strands of fur into a spinning wheel, pinching every few seconds to create an even mound of yarn on a cylinder ...