Leslie Shelor Covered by the Newspaper-Appalachian Voices
August 1, 2011
Pure angora and shetland skeins. ...Situated alongside the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the mountain community of Meadows of Dan, VA. Leslie Shelor, local spinner and member of Round The Mountain
By Jillian Randel
Rabbits, Sheep, Alpacas, oh my! What to do with all that fur…
Shelor bred and raised German angora rabbits, a specialty breed, and spent years traveling the East Coast delivering them to customers. The idea to open a fiber studio came when she found herself shearing about a pound of fur from each of her own 30 rabbits every 90 days. She needed an outlet for all of the fiber she was spinning.
For more details see this newspaper:
Reference source: The Appalachian Voice, August-Sept. 2011
