Vanishing fleece

Building upon the runaway success of Knitlandia, Parkes takes readers on a new adventure to meet a whole new cast of characters, the cowboys and farmhands and countless workers without whom our fields would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Travel the country with Clara as she tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a New York farm, and learns how fibers are measured in a climatecontrolled wool testing laboratory in Denver. Other chapters include visits to Pendleton Woolen Mill, the Basque restaurants of Bakersfield, California (serving homesick Basque shepherds since the early 1900s and the heart of the western wool culture), Burlington Industries (where fabric for the U.S. Army is made), and Nestle Hosiery's Farm to Feet allAmerican sock factory in South Carolina.