<![CDATA[Wild and Wooly World - Blog]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:14:52 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Dyeing with nature]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 19:10:19 GMThttps://www.wildandwoolyworld.com/blog/dyeing-with-nature
Found this interesting chart of what colors can be obtained from plants, at the Arboretum outside of Flagstaff, Arizona.
Did a number of hikes around Sedona and am hoping to do some works in red now. Will be using my usual acid dyes from Dharma Trading though.
]]><![CDATA[Reading: Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein, published 2023]]>Wed, 03 May 2023 23:21:19 GMThttps://www.wildandwoolyworld.com/blog/reading-unraveling-by-peggy-orenstein-published-2023The autho, who lives in Berkeley, tells of traveling to Sonoma to sheer sheep, process the fleece and knit a sweater. Takes place during the pandemic. Lots of interesting facts around sheep, wool, California fires, words related to spinning, 

It contains interesting facts:
- “California only has the mill capacity to process ten thousand pounds [of fleece] annually, yet the state produces three million - about a quarter of the country’s total production.”
- “there are about 90 percent fewer sheep in the U.S. than there were at their peak in the 1940s, much of that decline happening over the last thirty years.” 
- “swarf” is “ all the nasty bits: straw, dead bugs, burrs, pee, manure, flakes


]]><![CDATA[California Fiberfestival. Booneville, CA, Sep 13-15, 2019]]>Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:15:18 GMThttps://www.wildandwoolyworld.com/blog/california-fiberfestival-booneville-ca-sep-14-16-2019
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sheep shearing
Bought some  interesting fibers I will have to incorporate into something sometime.: re-cycled sari silk, yarn with lots of curly locks, handprinted bamboo fiber, remnants left after the carding process.
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