Navajo Wool, Diné Stories
From traditional Navajo-Churro wool to finewool fleeces prized by industry, sheep and yarn are inseparable from the Diné lifeway.
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From traditional Navajo-Churro wool to finewool fleeces prized by industry, sheep and yarn are inseparable from the Diné lifeway.
Heritage sheep breeds can connect you to the world—one skein at a time.
As Ross Farm enters its sixth generation, Amy and her son, Drew, bring a fresh approach to a farming legacy.
Most sheep get pretty dirty. Here’s how fleeces are cleaned to get rid of vegetable matter so your yarn is nice and soft.
Mary Jane Mucklestone shows us around Tarndie and invites us to knit along.
A LYS owner headed straight to the source when creating a small-batch yarn, and she found so much more.
Beginning with a few bottle lambs, a young rancher revives her family’s heritage as shepherds.
The quintessential luxury fiber, American-grown cashmere is difficult to find as fiber, yarn, or clothing. An accidental cashmere farmer is building a network to change that.
Before natural-fiber yarn reaches your needles, yarn shop, and even the mill, it starts on a farm. At Wing & A Prayer Farm, producing beautiful wool is partnership between shepherd, sheep, and land.
Producing wool, cotton, and wheat doesn’t have to deplete the earth and consume groundwater. Sally Fox is using her hard-won organic farming wisdom to produce excellent fiber that enriches the soil.
From local sheep to a local mill, discover the artisanal yarn from the small island of Foula.
Yarn from the islands where sheep outnumber people