Raw Material
Working Wool in the West

Stephany Wilkes (Author)

9780870719516

Paperback / softback, published 20 October 2018

336 pages, 20 black & white photographs, 1 figure
22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.48 kg

In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter’s search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West.