Download or read book Wool written by Peggy Hart and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. This book tells wool's colorful and surprisingly epic tale and how it has impacted millions of lives from immigrants, slaves, Native Americans, to farmers and advertisers. Author Hart reveals little-known but fascinating facts about US society--for example, how huge flocks of sheep were driven to the California gold fields to feed hungry miners, and why sheep grazed on the White House lawn during World War I. Moving from the realms of handcrafted artisanry to industrialization and back, Wool is a story of technological and social change, marketing forces, and above all, consumer choices. A must-read for anyone who has knitted socks, woven a tapestry, or curled up with a warm wool blanket.
Download or read book The Magic Ball of Wool written by Susanna Isern and published by Cuento de Luz. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner at the 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. A magic ball has mysteriously appeared and will help to weave the most beautiful friendship between the animals of the forest. One morning, a hedgehog wakes up to find a mysterious ball of wool caught in his prickles. Why would he want a ball of wool?, he wonders in dismay. His friend the spider, who was an expert knitter, encouraged him to start knitting, teaching him all the keys and secrets to making a perfect sweater. Fascinated, all of the forest animals come to his house and the hedgehog happily knits something for each of his visitors. CLICKETY-CLICK, CLICKETY-CLICK... A stitch here, a stitch there... When the hedgehog stops knitting, he realizes something amazing—the ball of wool is magic! A charming tale of friendship, generosity and kindness that will bring out the best in young readers by encouraging them to help others.
Download or read book Warm as Wool written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.
Download or read book Three Balls of Wool written by Henriqueta Cristina and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three balls of wool and lots of ingenuity, this mother gets down to work and sparks a small revolution.
Download or read book Dust written by Hugh Howey and published by John Joseph Adams. This book was released on 2016 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.
Download or read book Shift written by Hugh Howey and published by John Joseph Adams. This book was released on 2016 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times best-selling Wool series.
Download or read book Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep written by Teri Sloat and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them. Silly antics, toe-tapping verse, a clever solution, and some mighty determined sheep will have young readers clamoring for this story again and again. Full-color illustrations.
Download or read book The Story of Wool written by Sara Ware Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raw Material written by Stephany Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Story of Wool written by Sara Ware Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanishing Fleece written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
Download or read book The Story of Wool written by Bassett Sara Ware and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Silo Series Collection written by Hugh Howey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 1925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Silo Stories The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced than to never speak of going outside. The punishment is exile and death. When the sheriff of the silo commits the ultimate sin, the most unlikely of heroes takes his place. Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, who never met a machine she couldn’t fix nor a rule she wouldn’t break. What happens when a world built on rules is handed over to someone who sees no need for them? And what happens when a world broken to its core comes up against someone who won’t stop until things are set to right? Their world is about to fall. What—and who—will rise?
Download or read book Story of Wool written by Sara Ware Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woolly Jumper written by Meredith Hooper and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the production and manufacture of wool from the paddock to the shop shelves. Filled with bright pictures kids will be able to follow along in learning about this interesting trade and animals. Ages 6+.
Download or read book Half Way Home written by Hugh Howey and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly sixty teens awaken halfway through their training, stranded on a harsh alien world with few supplies, no adults, and led by a treacherous artificial intelligence, but their greatest enemy is each other.
Download or read book The Work of Wool written by Carol Palmer (School teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
