BUFFALO — At Mountain Meadow Wool on Plains Drive in Buffalo, the raw material comes in the back, before it’s scoured in huge machines, then graded and sorted, spun, knit and finished. But starting in ...

Samantha Hardman has had enough. Her house was a wreck. Space was filled with the tools of her business – dyes, wool, ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TYRIAN PURPLE DYE PRODUCER, MOUHAMAD GHASSEN NOUIRA, SAYING: "Our ancestors used to extract dye from the murex this way: they break the shell of the murex and then extract the ...

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Despite their casting as problem species, invasive plants often hold deep ties to historical events and customs. A yearning to better understand their relationship to one specific ecosystem, the land ...