This month marks the auspicious return of wool milling to Humboldt County. Lost Coast Spinnery will celebrate its grand opening on May 31. The spinnery is, according to its founders, the first ...

In March, Hickory (N.C.) Public Library held its Sheep to Sweater program series, designed to take patrons through five different stages in the wool and clothing production process. Photos: Hickory (N ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

With missing parts, a coating of dust and rust and giant wheels and rollers that hadn’t turned for decades, the hulking machine stashed in an Oban barn had seen better days. Well over a century old, ...

Mulesing, the act of removing skin from a sheep’s backside to prevent flystrike, has been carried out on most Australian farms for decades. But it has been front and centre of campaigns by animal ...