RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Sheep and knowledge are the gifts that keep on giving for spinners who turn wool into yarn at the Dutchess County Fair, where a craft that arrived in the community hundreds of years ...

Katarina Hruskova, who operates Woolstore – a wool washing and processing business, is aiming to increase the capacity of her ...

In White River Junction, among a bevy of hulking metal machines, Amanda Kievet and Peggy Allen are making yarn. In April, the pair opened Junction Fiber Mill, a boutique mill to process fleece from ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

STROMSBURG, Neb. (KOLN) - The owner of a Stromsburg business is offering important services to small producers with Nebraska’s only custom wool mill. 10/11 met with Kelsey Quandt, who is the owner The ...

PUTNEY — In 1980, Claire Wilson, a soft-spoken Quaker now in her 90s and still living in Putney, met in a study group of 12 or so folks at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro.

Kentwool has been spinning wool into luxury yarn for five generations — 179 years. For almost seven decades, the yarn has been manufactured in Pickens. Yet many people don’t realize that Kentwool is ...

Blue Hen Blankets & Yarn, established in 2009, are made from wool shorn from the University of Delaware’s flock of Dorset sheep at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Wool is a natural, ...

UHRICHSVILLE Wool from local sheep is being turned into yarn that is being offered for sale worldwide from a downtown store. Pindrop Shop owner Jessica Zontini and friend Laura Gray have started their ...

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, ...