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Condition
Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9781419735370
Book Title
Vanishing Fleece : Adventures in American Wool
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2021
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Clara Parkes
Genre
Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
Topic
Needlework / Knitting, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Fiber Arts & Textiles
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1419735373
ISBN-13
9781419735370
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038633285

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vanishing Fleece : Adventures in American Wool
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Needlework / Knitting, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Fiber Arts & Textiles
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
Author
Clara Parkes
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-932344
Reviews
Given my hatred of puns, I absolutely do not want to say Clara Parkes spins an incredible yarn, but how else to describe this incredible book? Parkes is the Marc Kurlansky of wool!
Dewey Edition
23
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Dewey Decimal
338.4767731
Synopsis
Vanishing Fleece is a fast-paced account of the year New York Times bestselling author Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way. Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets 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; along the way, she presents a behind-the-scenes look at the spinners, scourers, genius inventors, and crazy-complex mill machines that populate the yarn-making industry. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Simply put, no other book exists that explores American culture through the lens of wool. "While I laughed and loved Clara's prose, I was left with so much more. It's actually a lovely and melancholy look at an American industry that's quickly changing, and a beautiful story of the people who are sacrificing to maintain it." --Judy Greer, actor, director, and author of I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star
ebay_catalog_id
4
Copyright Date
2020

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