American Wool Handbook
Author : Werner von Bergen
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Werner von Bergen
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Werner Von Bergen
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Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Wool
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Author : Werner Von Bergen
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Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Wool
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Author : W. Von Bergen
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Werner Von Bergen
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Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Wool
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Author : Peggy Hart
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Wool
ISBN : 9780764354311
Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. This book tells wool's colorful and surprisingly epic tale and how it has impacted millions of lives from immigrants, slaves, Native Americans, to farmers and advertisers. Author Hart reveals little-known but fascinating facts about US society--for example, how huge flocks of sheep were driven to the California gold fields to feed hungry miners, and why sheep grazed on the White House lawn during World War I. Moving from the realms of handcrafted artisanry to industrialization and back, Wool is a story of technological and social change, marketing forces, and above all, consumer choices. A must-read for anyone who has knitted socks, woven a tapestry, or curled up with a warm wool blanket.
Author : Werner von Bergen
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Wool
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Author : Arthur Harrison Cole
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Wool industry
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Animal culture
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Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1683356829
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 shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.