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| Wild Fibers Magazine Fall 2006
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Features:
The Chant of the Male Spider - Four male weavers from the Navajo Nation tell Torie Olson what the spirits and the spiders have told them about the Navajo tradition of weaving.
Treading with Alpacas - Federal Prosecutor and former State Representative William Schneider shares his unusual and remarkable experience with raising alpacas.
Clothing a Nation - Amidst enormous poverty and rampant disease, Erin Rhoda discovers the spirit of weavers clothing a nation.
Fat and Fashionable - Persian wool has been a staple of high fashion since the early 1900s. But at what price to the fat-tailed sheep who create them?
Aran Sweaters - Lost at sea then washed ashore, is the saga of the Aran Sweater one of sadness or modern Irish folklore?
From Pastures to Print - Friends in the pasture and now partners in print, Ann Brown and Letty Klein talk about the joys of taking a fur sheep and converting it to fiber in their new book, The Shepherd
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