From sheep to shawl
What has five wheels and twelve feet and runs for four hours without moving?
Give up? It’s a team of people spinning and weaving at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair’s annual Sheep-to-Shawl competition.
Contests to take the raw material of a fleece and make a finished garment on a tight schedule have existed for centuries. Sometimes the garment is a relatively simple one, like a shawl, but one competition in England in the 1800s was to produce a finished wool overcoat in 48 hours fr
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