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 ...

Anne Doull is busy during winter. Not only does she have a regular job as an engineer, but her family also owns 650 sheep in the northwest of Mainland, the main island of Shetland, an archipelago off ...

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 ...