Fiber Nation is a knitting podcast that goes beyond knitting. Join host Allison Korleski as she talks with people from all corners of the yarniverse: designers and dyers, shepherds and spinners, publishers and pathfinders. From family farms in the American heartland to a woman’s cooperative in Afghanistan, each episode explores what connects us as knitters and makers.
In this episode we look at the darker side of fiber history, with a surprising twist. Because in Victorian England, newspapers were filled with storie...
In 1846 an 8-year-old girl named Patty Reed headed west on the Oregon Trail, along with her family. Among Patty’s few toys was a tiny wooden doll. Thi...
Hand-drawn knitting charts are not normally the target of armed robbery. When you are starting a business in 1990's Russia, however, anything goes. In...
Say you start knitting, and get into yarn. Maybe you start spinning, and get obsessed with fiber. This is how an obsession with sheep might begin. Spi...
Fiber Nation is the knitting podcast that goes beyond knitting. Linda Ligon is the subject of the premiere episode of Fiber Nation. The first episode ...