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2. Slow fashion and fiber farming: nexus for community engagement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Trejo, H.X. (author) and Lewis, T.L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-02
- Published:
- England: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12241
- Journal Title:
- Fashion Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 9, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Agriculture and fashion become intertwined when fiber animals are used as a source of “raw materials,” including wool and mohair for clothing and textile production. This study evaluates the emerging visibility of fiber farms in the United States with sheep, alpacas, and angora goats in physical and virtual realms. This study explores twenty-first century fiber farmer discourses that contribute to Slow Fashion. Farmers have extensive expertise about their animals, fibers, and the farm landscape. The research methodology included a virtual ethnography on Facebook, and on-site visits to US fiber farms during 2013. Findings from the virtual ethnography conveyed how fiber farmers in Texas, Virginia, New York, and Illinois individualize the fiber animals with photographs, names, and descriptions of their personality characteristics. Individualizing fiber animals led to user engagement and interest in physically visiting fiber farms. Findings from on-farm visits in New York, led to deeper insight about alpaca fibers, a heritage breed of sheep, and the farmer’s role in the community. The “open” atmosphere created by fiber farmers suggests the sustained development of a local fiber industry, and opportunities for collaborations between fiber farms and the fashion industry.
3. The end of sixty years of international wool promotion
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abbott, Malcolm (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 110 Document Number: C10437
- Journal Title:
- Choices
- Journal Title Details:
- <26-29>
4. Use of stategies and decision rules by Australian wool producers to manage uncertainty
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Murry-Prior, R (author / Muresk Institute of Agriculture, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia), Wright, V (author / School of Marketing and Management, University of New England, Amidale , NSW, Australia), and Australian Farm Business Management Journal
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Australia: Australian Farm Business Management Network
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22497
- Journal Title:
- Australian Farm Business Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (1) : 56-71
- Notes:
- 16 p.