If the customer wants yarn, for example, we send it through the roving attachment, and that gathers all of the wool coming off, and it goes into a thick combed strip. If it’s going to be yarn ...

We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving, but between shearing and spinning there’s another unfamiliar process you’ll have to go through.

(Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Machines cut these sheets of wool batting into narrow strips and twist them into yarn. Workers pull the yarn into a network of strands that resembles ...

Jimmy Beans Wool founder Laura Zander ... "They just bought lots of yarn." What started out as a Truckee yarn shop and café has grown into a multimillion-dollar retailer that has caught the ...