Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals
$14.99
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Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals is a comprehensive and inspiring guide for small-scale fiber farming and wool crafting.
Fiber crafts—such as knitting, weaving, and crocheting—continue to surge in popularity, with sites like Ravelry (a social media community for the wool obsessed) gaining more than six million members. Artists are seeking quality raw materials in greater numbers. The cottage industry of supplying not only raw fleece, but handcrafted yarns, is strong.
A micro publishing house catering to homestead and agriculture themes for adults and children.
Sawdust Publishing was begun to give more author’s a chance to publish hard copies of their books. Our business model offers a fair return to the author especially when compared to traditional publishing houses. We are not a vanity press. Instead we work with the author as a team, helping them publish a book they can be proud to offer to the public. We are publishing books that educate and encourage on themes in the homestead and agricultural world. The children’s books are also related to agriculture and livestock topics, with age appropriate and fun, conversation encouraging topics.
Note** This title, Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals, was published by Skyhorse Publishing/Good Living Guide Imprint and authored by Janet Garman. Carried as a product on Sawdust Publishing sales with permission from Janet Garman.
Janet Garman has a small fiber flock (including Pygora fiber goats) and shares her expertise, as well as interviews, tips, and advice from fiber farmers and craftspeople across the country. In these pages, readers will learn the basics of properly raising sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, and rabbits, with tips on selecting animals, feeding, housing, breeding, and healthcare. From there, instructions are provided for shearing, sorting, skirting, washing, picking, carding, combing, and spinning the wool. Enthusiasts will also find recipes and instructions for natural, plant-based dyes and advice for selling your finished yarn.
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