Storey, Rita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 677.21 STOLarson, Kate
Summary: "All you need to know about spinning wool--from sheep to knits! Spinners have been creating beautiful yarns from wool for thousands of years, but we still have unanswered questions. How do you choose a fleece? Should you process your fleece by hand or send it to a mill? What kind of prepared fibers are available, and what should you do with them? Fiber artist and shepherdess Kate Larson answers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.1 LARDePaola, Tomie
Summary: A shepherd shears his sheep, cards and spins the wool, weaves and dyes the cloth, and sews a beautiful new red cloak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEPKalman, Bobbie
Summary: Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 KALMerino, Gemma
Summary: Lola is upset when her perfect, silky wool grows back tangled and messy after all the sheep have to get haircuts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MERSloat, Teri.
Summary: Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SloatLandra, Maie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth & Spring Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.432 LANSmith, Beth
Summary: Provides information about the wool shorn from twenty-one different breeds of sheep, noting the characteristics, history, structure, grease content, and fiber diameter of each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.1 SMICooper, Jane.
Summary: "It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that led her to search for rare-breed sheep and their distinctive wool. When she found a 'lost flock' of Boreray sheep--the UK's rarest breed of sheep--it ignited a quest that would ultimately change her life. Uprooting her suburban existence in Newcastle, she embarked on a new adventure as a farmer and shepherd in the faraway Orkney Islands. There, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 COOCornwell, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 646.4 CORGreenstein, Elaine.
Summary: Describes how a lamb's coat is made into yarn, which is made into mittens worn by a little girl when she visits the lamb on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GREBrown, Kathy
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Fiber BrownCox, Judy
Summary: A girl who cannot sleep decides to count sheep and other woolly animals by ones, twos, fives, and tens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COXFriend, Catherine.
Summary: What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, CATHERINE FRILyon, George Ella
Summary: An artist raises sheep, shears them, cards and spins the wool, dyes it, and then weaves a colorful picture of the Kentucky pasture where her lambs were born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LyoNickson, Chris.
Summary: Investigating the deaths of a young woman and a baby whose bodies were found in a deliberately set fire, Richard Nottingham conducts a search through the streets of Leeds before discovering a link to a wealthy wool merchant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICRobson, Deborah.
Summary: Provides different breeds of sheep and explains the best way to prepare their fleece for spinning, the natural colors of the fleece and how well it dyes, the best use for the wool, and fleece weights, staple lengths, and fiber diameters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.1 RobsonCallahan, Gail.
Contents: A very reasonable craft. The Big Three : fiber, color heat -- Your dye studio. Setting up your studio ; Safety first ; Be environmentally responsible ; Organizing your supplies ; Heat sources -- Fibers to dye for. What to expect from protein fibers ; The many elements that affect dye color ; Preparing fiber for the dyebath -- Dyes to try. Types of dyes ; Some dying warm ups ; Playing with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.6 CALFinlay, Victoria
Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINLandra, Maie
Summary: A collection of 30 magnificent shawls, all knit with Koigu. With patterns in all weights, from ultra-luxe lace to popular bulky yarns, every knitter will find a perfect project!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 LANMillen, C. M.
Summary: After the shearer removes the winter coat from the sheep, the spinner, weaver, and knitter, each in turn, do their part to produce the wool sweater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJOEversole, Robyn
Summary: Lalo the lamb wants to have a bright sweater like the one the shepherd boy wears but Lalo has a very hard time washing, spinning, and dyeing his own wool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EVERSKwasny, Melissa
Summary: "Kwasny investigates the cultural history of fashion, traveling the globe to gather firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods, from aboriginal to modern, as she investigates the phenomenology of silk, skin, wool, feathers, and pearls, long coveted materials that even today are regarded as precious and luxurious"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2019