wool

Explains how wool is removed from sheep and used in our clothes, carpets, furnishings, and many other things.

Yetsa spends several happy Saturdays helping wash, tease, and spin wool fleece into yarn which her grandmother, one of the Coast Salish people, then knits into wonderful, distinctive sweaters.

Provides information about wool, where it comes from, how it is processed, and its many uses in everyday life. Includes a glossary and resources for further study.

Describes how wool from a sheep is made into a sweater and explains how to tell the difference between wool and man-made fibers. Includes activities featuring weaving and dyeing wool.

Describes sheep-raising and the wool industry in colonial and 19th-century New England. Includes a discussion of the production of woolen yarn and cloth.

Brief text and illustrations humorously describe how Bags the lamb's wool grows.

Describes how a sheep grows wool, and how that wool is processed, spun into yarn, and knitted into a sweater.

Traces the process by which wool is grown on sheep, cut, sorted, cleaned, dyed, spun into yarn, and knitted into sweaters. Includes directions for making a lamb out of wool and felt.

When wolves steal the wool coats of three sheep, the sheep track down the wolves in order to get their wool back.

Highlights the step-by step process of shearing sheep, spinning wool, and knitting a scarf.