Looks like it's the wooly season. I recently wrote about Edith Fisher, who has alpacas on her Wooly Works Farm and sells alpaca fiber and products at her Wooly Works Knit Shop in downtown Colorado ...
Over Halloween weekend, the front display window of Vera’s Treasures in Honokaa could have been called Knitters Delight. There were vibrantly colored yarns made from sheep wool, a spinning wheel, and ...
After brushing the billowy, thick white fur of her Angora rabbit Mollie, Karen Lamb feeds strands of fur into a spinning wheel, pinching every few seconds to create an even mound of yarn on a cylinder ...
On a recent afternoon, passerby could have looked into Holly Zimmerman’s backyard in Prior Lake and seen her gently brushing what looked suspiciously like a large white feather duster. If he or she ...
T Squared Rabbitry's Tarah Nyberg gave a one-hour class Thursday morning on the how-to's of harvesting and spinning of Angora rabbit wool. The Angora rabbit is one of the oldest domestic rabbits. They ...
LIVINGSTON - For Livingston resident Claudia Krisniski, the bunny delivers more than just once a year. Krisniski is the proud owner of eight Angora rabbits bred especially for their long coat which is ...
Angora wool is the soft, silky and highly prized hair of the Angora rabbit. It's harvested periodically through the year by brushing or shearing the rabbit, and an ounce of high-quality angora wool ...
Karen Lamb, of Dallas, has been spinning angora rabbit fur at the Willamette Heritage Center's Sheep to Shawl event for roughly 20 years. She learned about fiber spinning 25 years ago and taught ...