IN THE MEDIA
Junction Fiber Mill, Millcast with Clara Parkes (February 27, 2024)
Articles of Interest with Avery Trufelman (October 11, 2023)
The Long Thread (June 2023)
A Verb for Keeping Warm, Episode 12, A Slower, More Mysterious Contemplative Soltice with Clara Parkes (December 21, 2022)
Ja-Wol, Episode 23, A Smaller Life: Clara Parkes on all things wool industry & community (December 1, 2021)
Gist Yarn, Episode 94, An Exploration of the Vanishing American Wool Industry with Clara Parkes (January 14, 2020)
Fruity Knitting, Episode 94, Clara Parkes Vanishing Fleece (January 2020)
The American Scholar, Smarty Pants Podcast, A Good Yarn (November 8, 2019)
Very Pink, Episode 67, Clara Parkes and Stashing Yarn (2018)
CRAFT-ish with Vickie Howell, Episode 3, NYT Best-selling Author, Clara Parkes (2016)
Squam Art Workshops, Episode 14, Morning on the Dock with Clara Parkes (2016)
CraftSanity Podcast, Episode 181, Clara Parkes chats about her new book “Knitlandia,” Clara Yarn and life exfoliation (February 18, 2016)
KnitFM, Episode 14, Breed Specific Wool (December 14, 2015)
Pompom Magazine, Pomcast 11, With Clara Parkes (March 30, 2015)
The Yarniacs Podcast, Episode 47, Clara Parkes (October 18, 2013)
In Print
MDK: Modern Daily Knitting: “First Person” monthly column
9/12/24: Life with Wool: Our Journey Begins
10/21/24: Life with Wool: The Great Textiles Transhumance
11/11/24: Life with Wool: Bring on the Blanket Forts
Vogue Knitting (Winter 2021-22): Channel Your Knowledge: Clara Parkes, The Wool Channel
Publisher’s Weekly: The Politics of Yarn: PW Talks with Clara Parkes
NPR: Ravelry, The Knitting Website, Bans Trump Talk and Patterns
Times Literary Supplement: Yarn
Inside Hook: The 80 Best Single-Operator Newsletters
Wall St. Journal: Fiber Optics: Wool Lovers Battle Animal-Rights Crowd Over Sheep Shearing
Washington Post: Knitlandia Review
Reader’s Digest: 50 Best Summer Reads of All Time
Esquire: Know Your Wool
NY Mag: Tell Me Everything You Know About Wool
Heifer International: Celebrity Knitter Talks Yarn, Work-Life Balance and Traveling the World
Modern Farmer: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wool But Were Afraid to Ask
Farm and Dairy: Fleeced: A Social Media Post about Duluth Trading Goes Viral
Tri-State Livestock News: Duluth Trading Taken to Task Over Wool Comment
Associated Press: Shop Local Movement Drives Sales of American-Made Yarn
Vogue Knitting: Twenty Minutes with Clara Parkes
Interweave Knits: Clara Parkes, the Yarn Seer
Radio
BBC Newshour (starting at the 40-minute mark)
Leonard Lopate (WNYC): Please Explain Wool
Wisconsin Public Radio: Knitting as a Lens Through Which to See the World (2016); The Yarn Whisperer (2013)
Television / Radio
KATU TV’s Afternoon Live (October 2019)
Vanishing Fleece Reading at Strand Books (October 2019)
Knitlandia reading at Strand Books (February 2016)
Podcasts
In these occasional podcasts, I talk with people around the world whose lives touch, or have been touched, by wool. Have a listen.