Carol Ekarius

This book was given to me as a gift and I loved reading it! It is filled with beautiful photos of different species of wool-producing species, as well as their fleeces / fibers in raw, cleaned, spun, and knitted states. I am allergic to sheep's wool but I enjoyed reading about the different breeds of sheep so much that I almost ordered samples of several different fleeces just to see if perhaps my body would allow me to work with them. (I may still do that one day.) I loved that the camelids, goats, rabbits and other fiber animals were also included.

The stories of the different sheep breeds and other animals were fascinating and I especially loved reading about the at-risk and scarce species.

This seems to be a well-researched labor of love that must have taken so much time to compile. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in the fiber arts.… (mehr)

I was disappointed in this book. The info was not complete. In most cases it lacked information about how many and what color eggs you could expect from each breed. Whether the birds were flighty or docile etc. My biggest gripe was that most of the illustrations of chickens were of the bantam version of the bird. For someone totally uninterested in bantams, I wanted to see what the large original bird looked like. And they do in most cases look different. Bantams generally have a different body stance and look about them. I want to see the big egg laying version.… (mehr)