Come on out to The Wayback gallery at the Chicago Weaving School to celebrate the release of Wool Work, a book by Emily Winter, TWM co-founder and director, documenting a segment of the domestic wool supply chain, starting with the 2019 Navajo Nation Wool Buy.

Every summer from 2012-2019, a group of commercial wool-buyers converged on the Navajo Nation to purchase raw wool from Diné producers. The wool was shipped to Ohio for sorting then onto South Carolina for scouring. In the process, the wool transformed from a material with a visible origin & history into a generic commodity dispersed into the global market. Wool Work makes visible some of the places, people and processes that constitute this segment of the wool supply chain--it's an exercise in close looking, in finding value in the mundane and in seeking traces of history, labor and landscape in the textiles we make and live with.

Saturday February 17, 3-7pm

The Wayback at the Chicago Weaving School

4201 West Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL

Books will be available for purchase