By Lynn AbramsKnitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the north-west of Mainland, ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Sheep and knowledge are the gifts that keep on giving for spinners who turn wool into yarn at the Dutchess County Fair, where a craft that arrived in the community hundreds of years ...

Wool crafts can be satisfying and enjoyable, for our own pleasure and to make gifts for others. They include anything from knitting, crochet and sewing or weaving with wool, to making pom-poms, ...

In a country with nearly as many sheep as people, a D.I.Y. wool journey — from sheep farms to yarn shops — makes perfect sense. Our writer brushes up on her knitting on a driving trip from Reykjavik.

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The Willamette Heritage Center’s 40th annual Sheep to Shawl festival is a wonderful chance to learn how wool gets from a sheep’s coat to a weaving station. Sheep to Shawl is a free event from 10 am to ...