The wool is delivered to the mill receiving shed in Harmony and shipped off to South Carolina to be commercially washed, then dyed in Philadelphia and returned to Maine to be made into yarn.

Built in 1948, the mule is spinning 240 bobbins of wool into yarn and it’s the last of its kind in the United States, said Lindsey Rice, who with his wife, Susan, owns and operates the three ...

Liam Gonzalez, 10, makes a macrame bracelet as fellow student Alana Sharkey, 15, spins wool into yarn during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013.

The group noted that transforming raw wool into yarn wasn't exactly a simple process. Read more: Pussyhat Project has hot pink yarn flying off Michigan shelves. It took 2½ years, ...

The wool is collected by hand and fed into a machine that blows it upstairs to the carder, where the fiber is teased into long strands for spinning. On the day I visited, the 67-year-old spinning mule ...

I was only one year into my business when I decided it would be nice to have a wool mill.” With lots of planning and preparation, Quandt continues to operate her custom mill just a block east of ...

The bottles are shredded and melted into pellets which are in turn extruded into yarn and then woven into rugs. Celebrating the natural. The vast majority of rugs sold by high-end rug company Tamarian ...

Kentwool has been spinning wool into luxury yarn for five generations — 179 years. For almost seven decades, the yarn has been manufactured in Pickens. Yet many people don’t realize that ...

Three years ago, she saw a yarn truck from Texas at a fiber festival in Newark. "I thought, 'This is a really cool concept,'" said Richey, 54, who works as a senior paralegal.