Workshop Highlights

Fibers: Wool & Cotton

Lesson Plans

• King Cotton
  • Cotton Bolls Kit
  • American Made Brand Fabric
  • America's Farmers: U.S. Cotton Facts

• Bartering Through the Seasons
  • Wool Samples
  • Wool Spinning
  • Hands-on with Wool
  • Smartwool: From Sheep to Shop

Recommended Books

• Cotton Now & Then
• Working Cotton
• Farmer George Plants a Nation
• Charlie Needs a Cloak
• A New Coat for Anna
• The Shepherd's Trail
• Warm as Wool

Additional Resources

• Cotton Gin Animation
• Cotton: From Field to Fabric in Forty Frames
• America's Heartland: Cotton to Denim (Episode 118)
• Cotton Reader
• Cotton...The Perennial Patriot (DVD)
• How It's Made: Cotton Yarn
• USDA ERS: Cotton & Wool
• From Fiber to Fabric (DVD)
• How It's Made: Wool
• Wool Ewe Keep Me Warm? (DVD)
• America's Heartland: Wild & Wooly Roundup
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