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Shear Spirit: Life on America's Fiber Farms and Ranches

Shear Spirit: Life on America's Fiber Farms and Ranches

by JoanTapper (Author), photographybyGaleZucker (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

Part coffee-table book, part inspirational work, and part pattern guide, Shear Spirit connects knitters to the yarn-producing community in a new and intimate way. Filled with stunning photographs, fascinating essays and heartwarming profiles, this book follows the writer and photographer to 10 fibre farms and ranches across America - from the Willamette Valley of Oregon to the coast of Maine - capturing the essence of the people, places and animals that, together, create yarn. It includes 20 projects featuring yarns from the farms surveyed that will inspire knitters everywhere.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Potter Craft
Published: 01 Apr 2008
ISBN 10: 0307394034
ISBN 13: 9780307394033

Media Reviews
With her perceptive profiles of life on farms from Maine to Oregon, Joan Tapper introduces us to passionate people whose lives are beautifully tied to the land. Gale Zucker's rich, human photographs show us these stunning places, tender faces, and the most gorgeous fiber. Shear Spirit 's stories will stay with you long after you finish the book and will weave through your imagination as you create the lovely projects. -Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Authors of Mason-Dixon Knitting Set down your knitting needles, kick off your barn boots, and put on the kettle before becoming absorbed in every page of this book. Whether you are smitten with fiber or warm wooly faces, Shear Spirit provides a cozy window into modern-day fiber farming. Get ready to spend an afternoon on the farm without tuning up the tractor, and enjoy colorful patterns that will keep you happily counting stitches well into the night. -Linda Cortright, Wildfibers Magazine
Author Bio
GALE ZUCKER is an award-winning location photographer and avid knitter. Her work has appeared in books, advertising, and magazines. Her portraits and feature stories appear frequently in Smithsonian, Newsweek, Yankee, and the New York Times Magazine. Before becoming an editor of the award-winning Islands magazine, which she headed for 13 years, JOAN TAPPER was the founding editor of National Geographic Traveler. She is the author of Island Dreams: Caribbean and The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California and writes features about people, arts, and culture for a variety of other national publications.