Mills
New Quiz, Readalong, Mill for Sale, and Next Flock Talk
Have you taken the new quiz yet? Also: Flock Talk update, our next readalong, and a mill for sale.
Could YOU pass this test?
Take a peek inside the 1935 test for the Worsted Yarn Manufacture technological certificate from the City and Guilds of London Institute.
Taking the Long Way Home with Anna Hunter
Hello and happy Friday! I'm excited to share a brand new episode of Voices in Wool. I talk with Canadian wool advocate, fiber farmer, and mill owner Anna Hunter of Long Way Homestead [https://www.longwayhomestead.com]. Listen to the episode now [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1806904/10082364]
Staying Vertical: A Mill Tour
Fresh from last week's archival BBC sheep-recognition footage, we're still in the UK for a quick tour through one of the country's older vertical woolen mills. Originally, the term "vertical" was a literal description of how a mill operated. Vertical mills relied
A Mill of One’s Own
It's Earth Day, and I'm eager to tell you about a bundle of wooly goodness that just reached me from a farm in England. It is redolent of sheep. Not the spicy fragrance of spinning oil we often equate with wool yarn, but the bright and
