4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

PUTNEY — In 1980, Claire Wilson, a soft-spoken Quaker now in her 90s and still living in Putney, met in a study group of 12 or so folks at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro.

Almost every adult is able to recall wearing a scratchy woollen jumper at some point during their younger days. Fortunately the landscape of the wool industry has moved on. On-farm sheep breeding ...

You sometimes can’t even imagine what you don’t know about a subject until you talk to an expert. Enter Marcail McWilliams, owner of Valley Oak Wool and Fiber Mill and expert about all things wool.

Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

Isabel and Nick Renters are selling alpaca knitwear and yarn in an operation that puts a high value on ethical production. DES may have lost a few teeth and be fed a special “geriatric” diet of soaked ...