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After making a deal with an old washerwoman spirit called the Bean-Nighe, seventeen-year-old weaver Ella begins creating beautiful pieces that attract the notice of a rich patron, and soon Ella is entangled in magic that refuses to let her go.

Unaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind, so uses her abilities as a weaver to achieve her dream.

After an unexpected event, Lily Verner is forced to remember a disastrous decision she made decades earlier on the 1940s British countryside.

In pictures and rhythmic text, a mother relates to her daughter all the steps involved in making her a snug, wooly sweater, starting at the very beginning with feeding the sheep.

In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors receives permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.

Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. After her family lost their piano shop to a con man in London, they're trying to start fresh in a new town. Her father is convinced Carrisford is an upright and honest place, but Sophie is not so sure. She has grave suspicions about silk-weaver Madeline Crewe, whose stunning beauty doesn't hide the fact that she's up to something. All Maddie Crewe needs is one big score, one grand heist to properly...

In the process of weaving her first Chief's Blanket, Flower After the Rain discovers the meaning of giving and receiving.

A cumulative, illustrated tale describing the process of raising sheep and using their wool to make warm woolen blankets.

"As the seasons change, Nari and her parents shear her sheep's fleece, and spin and dye the wool. Nari knits the yarn into a cosy yellow scarf. But as Nari grows older, her beloved scarf becomes tattered. It's time to recycle the wool into compost, with a little help from the worms. This picture book will help children understand where clothing comes from, and is a celebration of traditional crafts and sustainable living"--Book jacket flap.