Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America's colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry.

Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly ...