Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

A deeply reported, often humorous, and quietly urgent look at the true cost of what we wear and the value of knowing where it comes from.

What does it really take to turn a sheep’s fleece into the yarn in your hands? In Vanishing Fleece, textile expert and bestselling author Clara Parkes sets out to answer that question by following a single 676-pound bale of wool from farm to finished skein.

This is a portrait of a disappearing domestic industry, told through the people fighting to preserve...