In a new show entitled The History of Wool: From Functional to Fashionable, curator Charlotte Smith starts 10,000 years ago on the plains of faraway Mesopotamia, long before wool was spun, and tracks ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For an exhibition earlier this year entitled The History of Wool: From Functional to Fashionable, ...

The history of wool Interest in the study of textile production, particularly wool production, throughout history has been increasing in recent years. “The purpose of this project is to reveal the ...

Researchers at the University of Bradford have helped unravel the woolly history of sheep domestication, by examining the animal’s DNA from thousands of years ago. Scientists investigated endogenous ...

LOCAL BUSINESSES ARE KEEPING THOSE TRADITIONS ALIVE. I’VE. NEW ENGLAND HAS A STORIED HISTORY WITH TEXTILE MILLS, ESPECIALLY WOOL. IN CANTON, ONE PROPERTY HOUSES TWO BUSINESSES WITH MORE THAN 250 YEARS ...

Suzanne had been a fiber hobbyist but never envisioned running a mill with Jay. The Horschler family, the former owners, ran the mill since the 1970s as a phone order business for wool hobbyists. They ...