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Heather Chontos paints exuberantly in an abstract language all her own. Raised in upstate New York, she’s a self-taught ...
She doesn’t just use sheep wool, but also fur from other animals such as angora rabbits and alpacas. Her favorite to work with is the Suri alpaca’s fiber.
A Wauconda artist has found hers, painting with wool. As WGN’s Sean Lewis reports, it’s an art form that has grown from a love of animals, to a new career as an author and illustrator of ...
As part of a multipronged endeavor to lift the curtain on New Zealand’s horrific and shameful wool industry, PETA ...
One of the oldest breeds in the United States, these sheep with a funny name developed from the original sheep brought by Spanish explorers in the 1500s. It’s named for the first non-native settlers ...
She stumbled onto wool felt art about a decade ago, and has turned it into a career. Her current exhibition at an art centre in Beijing features mushroom-headed figures sitting on chairs, as if ...
Dear Editor: The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival will be held this weekend in Rhinebeck. Thousands of visitors will attend the celebration of all things wool commerce. There also will be she… ...
Join the National Park Service on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site for a day of free programs and activities devoted to the animals that were a part of the historic ...
Dani Sexton, 6, struggled to tug a swath of stretchy fabric over Penny's wooly legs.