📚 Wool

The fleece: clip and fiber, and the spinning and knitting trades it keeps feeding.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject wool in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Charlie Needs a Cloak	Tomie dePaola	1973	23
	The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics	Franklin Beech	1902	9
	A treatise on sheep	Ambrose Blacklock	1838	8
	Wool	Peter Alexander	1954	7
	Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propriétaires de troupeaux.	Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton	1802	6
	The dier's assistant in the art of dying wool and woollen goods	James Haigh	1810	6
	Wool	Frank Ormerod	1918	6
	Wool and manufactures of wool	United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics.	1887	5
	Woolcraft Book	Constance Jackson	1980	5
	Chronicon rusticum-commerciale	John Smith	1747	4
	A letter to the patentee, concerning the medical properties of the fleecy hosiery	William Buchan M.D.	1790	4
	Health-culture	Gustav Jäger	1893	4
	Wool and the wool trade	Alston Hill Garside	1939	4
	The dye-pot	Mary Frances Davidson	1950	4
	Hand woolcombing and spinning	Peter Teal	1976	4
	Die preisentwicklung der baumwolle und der baumwollfabrikate seit 1890	Ernst Ilgen	1913	3
	American wool handbook	Werner Von Bergen	1938	3
	Wool	W. J. Onions	1962	3
	Exciting things to make with wool, string, and thread	Rosalind G. May	1977	3
	Have You Any Wool?	Jan Messent	1986	3
	Story of Wool	Geoffrey Patterson	1988	3
	Wool	W. S. Simpson	2002	3
	The story book of wool	Maud Fuller Petersham	1939	2
	Angora rabbit wool production	George S. Templeton	1941	2
	Wool Handbook	Werner Von Bergen	1963	2
	The weaver's gift	Kathryn Lasky	1980	2
	Wool	Jacqueline Dineen	1985	2
	Textiles, cordage and raw fibre from 16-22 Coppergate	Penelope Walton Rogers	1989	2
	Handspinning, dyeing and working with merino and superfine wools	Margaret Stove	1991	2
	De ovejas y mercados	Dagmar Schumann	1992	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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