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Excellent for those interested in textiles
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-14-19
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Unraveling
- What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater
- De: Peggy Orenstein
- Narrado por: Peggy Orenstein
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater.
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Nailed it!
- De Miss Effie en 02-19-23
De: Peggy Orenstein
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The Lost Flock
- Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
- De: Jane Cooper
- Narrado por: Jane Cooper
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray, and the wool-obsessed woman who moved to one of Scotland’s wildest islands to save them.
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Spinner / weaver from Texas, loved it !!
- De Amy en 04-03-24
De: Jane Cooper
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Worn
- A People's History of Clothing
- De: Sofi Thanhauser
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands.
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Horrors of the industrial revolution Continued
- De Susan en 01-28-22
De: Sofi Thanhauser
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Sheepish
- Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
- De: Catherine Friend
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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What do you do when you love your farm...but it doesn’t love you? After 15 years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it’s not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last 90 years. But just as Catherine thinks it’s time to hang up her shepherd’s crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a funny, thoughtful romp through the history of our woolly friends, why small farms are important, and how each one of us - and the planet - would benefit from being very sheepish, indeed.
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We're all a little sheepish
- De Pam en 12-23-14
De: Catherine Friend
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Vanishing Fleece
- Adventures in American Wool
- De: Clara Parkes
- Narrado por: Clara Parkes
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets 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.
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Great Book.
- De Josemiguel Gomez en 03-02-20
De: Clara Parkes
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Threads of Life
- A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
- De: Clare Hunter
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework.
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Textile bucket list.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-21
De: Clare Hunter
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Fibershed
- Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
- De: Rebecca Burgess
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it’s common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.
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Interested In Sustainable Life, Not Just Food?
- De becky en 11-21-19
De: Rebecca Burgess
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The Dress Diary
- Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe
- De: Kate Strasdin
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments—some her own, others donated by family and friends—she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator. Using her expertise, Strasdin spent the next six years unraveling the secrets contained within the album's pages, and the lives of the people within.
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Fascinating History
- De Cpm405 en 01-09-24
De: Kate Strasdin
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Fowl Play
- A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
- De: Sally Coulthard
- Narrado por: Deirdra Whelan
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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The chicken can fly only a few metres but–somehow–this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. In Fowl Play, Sally Coulthard charts the chicken's fascinating journey from dinosaur to domestication to exploitation, exploring every aspect of the history of Gallus gallus domesticus.
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Very interesting
- De E. en 01-25-23
De: Sally Coulthard
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Tangles and Treason
- Vampire Knitting Club, Book 0.5
- De: Nancy Warren
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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Nancy Warren presents a prequel to the Vampire Knitting Club series.
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Raif is finally on audible!
- De Sandra R. Merrill en 02-27-21
De: Nancy Warren
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A Stash of One's Own
- Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn
- De: Clara Parkes
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Kate Udall, Eliza Foss
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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In tales from 21 knitters, Clara Parkes examines a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancies. With her trademark wry, witty approach, Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping and knitting life - from KonMari minimalist to joyous collector, designer to dyer, spinner to social worker, scholar to sheep farmer.
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Another Delightful Read From Clara Parkes
- De Aly en 03-10-18
De: Clara Parkes
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The Yarn Whisperer
- My Unexpected Life in Knitting
- De: Clara Parkes
- Narrado por: Clara Parkes
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on a Life in Knitting, renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes ponders the roles knitting plays in her life via 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love, and celebration, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters to create and explores the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things.
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I was expecting a great story with great wisdom!
- De LoRe Bolling en 05-18-19
De: Clara Parkes
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The Secret Lives of Color
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of 75 fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from into a unique study of human civilization.
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More about pigments than social history
- De Jason Toon en 12-13-20
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Knitting Yarns
- Writers on Knitting
- De: Ann Hood - editor
- Narrado por: Ann Hood, Sam Adrain
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.
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Love it!!!!
- De Indigo en 01-30-14
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Short History of the World According to Sheep
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- A. P.
- 05-13-21
Not bad but could be much better
This book was quite informative but definitely too much focus on UK. As if other countries don’t exist. So many lost opportunities. Narration was not great - whenever she’s quoting anything she changed her voice and is very annoying and completely unnecessary.
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- Cate F.
- 12-11-21
More like Great Britain & Ireland
Not just for wool fans, this book tells how economic history depends on sheep. It’s an enjoyable listen and I appreciated all the details.
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- Crystal
- 03-03-23
Excellent book
This book is factual but also incredibly entertaining. The narrator has a wonderful voice. I set my device to 0.9 speed. I have listened to this book 3 times and suspect, I’ll listen to it many more.
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- TJ Schreiber
- 08-20-20
A Concise History on Sheep and Their Uses
It may bounce around a lot, but thats what I love about it, If you been interested sheep for awhile this is the book for you.
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- 06-14-21
Loved it!
This was so interesting and informative! The voice acting was great, too. I only wish it was longer and had even more detail about non-Western parts of the world. There was some of that, but more would have made it even better.
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- Brenda
- 09-06-22
An unexpected gem!
Loved it! Delightful and entertaining. Who knew sheep could be so interesting? Well worth the time to listen or read. And maybe more than once!
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- Hayley Robertson
- 07-19-22
I couldn't stop talking about sheep after reading
I was drawn to this book as a fiber artist curious about the wonders of wool and interested in perhaps keeping sheep one day. The history shared covers the globe and thousands of years giving a wide range of stories and facts of this early domesticated animal. From sheepdogs to scissors and shears, there is so much more to learn about sheep than I could have imagined. This was a great book to listen to for short drives, guaranteed to leave you with a snippet of information you can share when you get to your destination.
I finished this book 6 months ago and I still think about it almost weekly. Sheep are cute, sheep are beaut, sheep are soft and curly. Don Spencer, anyone?
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- Yarngirl52
- 10-31-22
Knitter, spinster, lover of all things wool
The book is short, but by no means lacking on history, humor, and trivia regarding wool, sheep and the necessity for humans to keep warm.
Very interesting history of the British wool industry crossing over to the colonies. Seems that if all the restrictions placed on the colonists nothing enraged them more than restrictions on wool.
I am happy that the author dispelled the common myths that Ganseys, Aran, & Icelandic sweaters and Scottish tartans are ancient designs passed down for generations. They are more likely the fabrication of clever marketers wanting to lure tourists into the various shops in Dublin, Glasgow, and London.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-12-23
Fascinating!
So interesting especially to
Spinners and shepherds and weavers, lots of history and culture of wool
And sheep
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- J. Clark
- 02-12-21
a UK/euro-centric bore. struggled to finish
mostly a history of UK wool economy and a history of the victors. colonialism? what colonialism?
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