I hope for more episodes, listening to stories about sheep while needle felting today.

I love this podcast ! I can’t find new episodes, what happened?

I’ve listened through twice, about the start again and I’ve told all my friends - so amazing. More episodes please, please, please!

I love this podcast! So informative and interesting. Please put out more episodes!

I love fiber! I love spinning, weaving, knitting, but I also LOVE history!! This podcast is so interesting and educational. I sure hope there will be more to come!!

Somehow I stumbled upon this podcast and I was a devoted listener after that first one. You are fantastic at incorporating history, culture, and textiles into a fascinating story. I would listen daily if it were possible. Thank you!

Obsessed! Even got my boyfriend into this one. When are new episodes coming???

I have learned so many interesting things from this podcast. I love it! Can’t wait for more! Have you considered doing a show on the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, particularly related to the work of the geologist Avtandil Okrostsvaridze? I just heard about this and found it really fascinating

Dear Allison, Please do more episodes! Love the history and the twists and turns of fiber. Love! There’s nothing like it, please do more! We need one on the handmade mosi and Bojagi of Korea!

Who knew fiber could be so fascinating? Allison tells great tales of fiber.

One day I commented that I love handling and working with fibers and that there must be a podcast out there for someone like me. We'll, Fiber Nation is the one, and I did listen to a selection of sort of similar podcasts before coming back and subscribing to this one. I am a former knitter, Macrame-er, embroiderer, and sweater fixer, and seamstress who is also curious about the stories related to the whole subject. I enjoy learning about the history and the back stories behind everything related to fibers delivered in an interesting and engaging way, as Allison does. The cultural side fascinates me, too, whether the podcast stories describe culture within the U.S. or outside, that have to do with fibers . I'm not interested in patterns, stitches, etc unless there is a good story behind them. That what I get from this podcast: Very engaging stories that prompt me to look into the links provided in show notes. Very enjoyable podcast , highly recommend it. 🤩

I just discovered this podcast and listened to every episode! Allison is interesting, well-versed in the subjects, professional and even funny. It’s a terrific podcast. If you like fiber, history, craft, sheep - you’ll enjoy this!

I love this podcast and all of the random avenues it goes down. There is so much going on in the world of fibers and the host does a great job looking at the field from many angles! Y’all also got me with the marmots - I paused the podcast when they were being flung into space but I didn’t realize what day it was so I was worried about the poor little astronaut marmots all day.

Some episodes are really fiber-interesting, but some are quite removed from weaving/knitting/crochet work. And the podcaster’s style is odd—- kind of flippant and sometimes crass. I don't care for it as much as the Interweave podcasts.

Love the stories about different aspects of textiles. Does her research, interviews interesting people, and keeps it moving

As a fiber geek, the stories are all the weird topics I crave. In-depth detail and will also help you win on trivia night. Bonus

Intelligent, wide range of subjects - always on my list.

This is a great podcast—one of the best for yarnie types. But we seem to have been abandoned half way through the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.

Great content. Superb. Bad music effects. Refine it. Please.

Everything fiber - from sheep to man-made, and the stories that surround them. People, places, culture, history. Never disappointed.

This is the best fiber podcast I’ve found. Interesting topics, organized engaging presentation, fun, intriguing, educational, inspiring! I love everything about it. I’m just so sad I’ve listened to them all already (even though I rationed myself a bit so I them too look forward to. I kept telling my family all about them every time I listened. 😉 Bravo!!!!!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, I love the hosts voice, I love the content, I love the research, I love the topics, there is no end to what I love of this show.

I love listening to Allison inform us of how fiber is intertwined into our lives whether you’re a fiber artist or not. It’s interesting. Thank you Allison.

Dear Allison, This is such a wonderful topic and the way you approach the subject is so rich in detail and research on the subject, that brings tears to my eyes, and memories of my childhood! I was born in the early 60s in small village west of Argentina, by the Andes, no tv so we had a lot of time for play and school. My mother taught us to sew and knit by age 5 to keep us busy in the cold winter, later I got more classes in school we had home economics in the afternoon including gardening, cooking and of course sewing and knitting. Later in my 20’s I had the opportunity to come to California (study a broad) …. Long story short I end up in the Bay Area sewing for art to wear artist and later took classes of fibers culprit And learn more about fibers and techniques that I love, Occasionally, I volunteered at a school close by to small kid’s to sew . I will like to teach what I learned but kids are not very interested this days and I’m afraid it is an art that maybe despair if we don’t do some thing about it ! Thank you for all you do!

Today’s episode (10/1/21) struck me hard! How powerful and informative!

Terrific storytelling about what all people can relate to, fiber and textiles. But the show also provides a global context for its subjects; eg, the role of sheep health in the study of human health. Engaging with juicy, surprising details.

These are the most interesting podcasts I have ever listened too. They are are beautifully constructed and narrated and the topics are fascinating. Bravo!!

Bravo! Allison Korleski has the voice, the creativity and enthusiasm reminiscent of NPR’s best. Korleski marries fiber with the most amazing subjects. Humorous. Intelligent. Enlightening. Try it, you’ll like it! 👏

So entertaining and informative even for non-knitters. Love it!!!

I found this two days ago and have been binge listening while I work. I’m a professional seamstress in the middle of wedding season. This podcast has been delightful, light enough that I can work and listen. Interesting enough to keep me hooked. Thank you for a quality podcast!!

I’m binging this show. It’s so weird and interesting and I love the pacing. It’s like investigative journalism about fiber arts

I found one episode by accident and binge listened to every episode! Then recommended and sent links to all my fiber friends. I can’t wait for more.

So I usually don’t listen to these types of podcasts around my husband because frankly they bore him. I mentioned the “Home Economics vs Hitler” episode (He is big into military history) so he wanted to listen. He liked it so much we rolled right into the episode “Manx for the Memories” and we proceeded to talking about sheep and wool. I didn’t think a podcast would get my husband to appreciate what I have been doing for a years as both a hobby and a profession. Good Job!

Great podcast Home Economics vs Hitler. Without women where would this world be?! Men again and again try to hold us back. We keep pushing forward. Kudos for another great podcast. Keep them coming!

First off, can I say I’d love to be stranded in. Cafe with Alison Korleski (sp?). The content is varied, fascinating and well presented. Maybe I’ll someday be interviewed 😁. Thanks so much to the entire Fiber Nation team for providing a treat for my brain and hands.

I love this podcast! I just wish there were more episodes! I listen to each one repeatedly, because they are that good. Textiles, history, interesting, often surprising, topics and great storytelling! Please keep the episodes coming!

I learn from each show and love to listen. I am a fiber enthusiast but novice. I learn about fiber about history about others who I can connect with! Thank you!!

Love this podcast! All episodes are first entertaining but also educational. A interesting link to the fiber running through your fingers as you knit and listen.

Educational, entertaining, inspiring.

Fascinating angles and intelligent takes on interesting topics. Well-produced and professional while still accessible and full of personality. A host with a great voice and an awesome nerdacious love for her subject matter. The only thing that would make it better is longer episodes!

Thank you for this podcast. It is balm to my soul. I look forward to every episode and the thoughtful conversation and pure joy and respect for textile arts.

Thank you for these podcasts. Every one is interesting and informative. I’ve learned so much about, not only fibers, but history! Keep them coming, please! Susan

I so enjoy listening to you podcast. They are so informative and fun.

I am appalled that you did an entire episode on Lycra and artificial lab-made fibers and did not mention the terrible impact on the environment. None of the fibers discussed are either recyclable or biodegradable - they will take thousands of years to break down, and meanwhile all those artificial micro bits are leaching into the ocean. Necessary perhaps for scientific and medical applications but NOT necessary in clothing. You are right, it is ubiquitous and hard to avoid, to our shame and damage to our planet.

I’m so glad I found this podcast. I weave,spin, knit and quilt and I can’t get enough of these stories. Please speed up production. Interesting and educational. Carol

For many of my adult years we raised sheep for bothering meat and fiber. I recently did some random searches of podcast to keep me company as walk our back roads. I found each of Fiber Nation episodes totally engaging. The history, the exploration, the creativity of each program pulls me in—and keeps me walking.

I just stumbled across this podcast and I am so thrilled I can’t tell you. I’m a history major ( snd an RN for 40 years) and have loved spinning, dying, knitting and quilting since high school. To describe the progress of history through objects and ceremony is so wonderful compared to studying history through dead white guys and their wars. Thanks for describing history thru fascinating stories about fiber. I have two funny stories. When I was in fifth grade I taught myself how to knit using chopsticks and string. My dad bought me some acrylic pink yarn and I made the queen of England a pair of hot pink acrylic slippers and mailed them to HRH. She wrote me a thank you note! The next story:At the University of Washington, I met a man who owned a sheep station in Australia.He kindly offered to send me a little bit of wool. I am 5’ 9”and he sent me A bale of wool as tall as I am and as wide as I am tall, took me a long time to get through that bale! Really enjoy your show, clearly you’ve spent lots of time researching and the topics are fascinating. Appreciatively, Rayne

The information is interesting and fascinating. The stories are told with a wonderful one and the content stays true. You don’t have to be someone that had a mail interest in fibers to find this podcast interesting. All of my kids listen to this podcast with me and find it interesting and entertaining. Give it a try. You won’t regret it.

Diction, recording, writing, research, topics... everything about this podcast is so fantastic. There’s only one problem, I want more episodes!!!

What a pleasant surprise to find that the series covers far more than just the wonderful techniques I enjoy doing: spinning, weaving, knitting, etc. Sheep, Wind, and Fire was just about the best podcast I’ve ever heard on any subject. The others I’ve now listened to are also excellent, covering politics, economics, animal husbandry and human nature. I’m hooked! Thank you!