“To begin with she taught me how to tease wool, the process of preparing it for spinning. I learned to pull the wool off the fleece, take out the dirty and tangled bits, part the wool between my fingers until it was of even texture, and then comb it into delicate little rolls.
"It's the preparation that counts in spinning," Anghard said. "If you are lazy about that you will never spin an even thread."...
..."Wool is a living thing," she said once.”