The festival of the intricately crafted textiles of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago off Scotland’s coast, draws hundreds of knitters from around the world for all things wool. The sheep are ...

HALSEY, Ore. — A conveyor belt fed a pile of Romney sheep wool into a carding machine. The machine intermixed the fibers and spit them out the other end as soft roving. “This is where the magic ...

Learn about small-scale wool processing and how to process raw wool and fleece by caring for and storing it correctly. Once you become a shepherd for sheep, goats, or other fiber animals, you’ll have ...

URADALE, Shetland Islands – The sheep came spilling over the hillside, emerging through the low mist where the green earth touched the gray sky, running down into the fields below. They were ready for ...