Aleksandra “Sasha” Azbel is the founder of Sashoonya, a textile art and design company creating sustainable and naturally ...

In a country with more sheep than people, a D.I.Y. wool journey — from sheep farms to yarn shops — makes perfect sense. Our ...

On a spring morning nearly a decade ago, Leigh Magar was out walking rural Johns Island, off Charleston, S.C., with her ...

Wool can also be dyed and processed with chemicals that render the fiber non-biodegradable and ... That’s almost twice as many items as were 100% wool and 3 times more than those blended with animal ...

Plants were soaked in hot water and wool was immersed in the dye bath. Stale urine may have been used as a mordant to fix dyes. Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, described the ...

Cotton Grows on a cotton plant in a ball called a boll, fibres are combed and spun into a yarn Takes dye well, soft, strong, absorbent, recyclable, used in clothing Wool Spun from animal fleece ...

Wool dryer balls are a great re-usable option if you're trying to limit one-use items. Yet, they're kind of a no-brainer for ...

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In a former juice processing plant in Port Williams, a cluster of machines whir and hum as they process piles of wool. For now, the wool processed in this cavernous facility — home of ...

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Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...