At the 51st annual Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, six teams have three hours to shear a sheep, spin the wool it into yarn, then weave those threads into a showstopping shawl.

It usually takes a professional one to five minutes to shear a sheep, yielding anywhere from a heavy, 14-pound fine wool fleece to a lighter coarse wool fleece around 5 pounds. Credit: Kristian Buus ...

He now works a half-day and figures he`s doing well if he shears 25 or 30 sheep, but back then he could do 100 in a day. Because wool is dry in winter and harder to shear, spring is the favored time.

A fiber artist who stumbled into the sheep business tends her herd and shares her love of heritage crafts. “You can't be this eccentric and not have a life that ...

Abby Arends, left, and Ngaio Braddick, both of New Zealand, pack wool last week on the Western Slope. Shearer Steven Hanson of New Zealand displays the cutting edges of his shearing tool during a ...

FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts ...

Wool is piled for baling as a shearing crew from Australia, New Zealand, Peru and the U.S. shear sheep at the Lehfeldt Ranch near Lavina on Monday, March 26, 2012. LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff ...

North Dakota man shears 1.2 million sheep in 13 countries and 27 states Hilary Gietzen has sheared sheep all over the world, but he enjoys coming back to shear in his home state of North Dakota ...

(KUTV) -- Utah wool producers have something important to say to PETA in response to its sheep billboard in Salt Lake City. "First thing that's important to understand about shearing is it's cruel ...

Making a sweater from scratch — from shearing a sheep to dyeing the wool to knitting it up — is a project filled with lessons in "Unraveling" by Peggy Orenstein.

Volunteer Joe Reed shears sheep, “Lamby”, during a program at Buckley Homestead in Lowell on Saturday, May 22, 2021. Chris Orange, new Buckley Homestead park manager, showed off the tools used ...