The 4th annual Fiber Frolic was held at the Hickory Ridge History Museum on Saturday, May 10 by the Southern Appalachian ...

The weekend after Memorial day, celebrate the Flagstaff Wool and Fiber Festival, May 31 and June 1. Flag Wool is an annual free festival celebrating all things wool, textile arts and natural fibers.

Other tournaments involve using yak-wool slingshots to snap smaller stones toward targets, as herders do daily to steer their sheep to pasture. Indoor amusements include dice and kelang ...

Now, years of falling wool prices prompted by a global shift to synthetic fibers have led farmers to change what they do with their land, the sector’s biggest lobby group said. By land area ...

Pema, age 24, is using a yak wool slingshot to gather the 150-strong herd, while his mother is expertly milking some of the female yaks. We’re soon ushered inside the family’s yak wool tent to ...

(Photo courtesy of Lindi Phillips) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It’s BYOS — bring your own sheep — to a May 10-11 workshop that might just help grow Arkansas’ wool fiber market. Wool is experiencing a ...