My Shetland Wool Week – part 5

Beside the workshops, we are also registered for sheep farms visits.

Well, it wasn’t really a good idea to visit 3 farms. We love seing sheeps and wool. Sheeps are beautiful and it was very pleasant to touch fleece and wool.

But, we understood nothing about the breeders presentation. English + technical vocabulary + Scottish accent, Whaou ! it was too much for poor little frenchies like us…

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But my husband bought this book

 

 

 

 

I’ll read it this winter and I hope I will know everything about sheep farming…

So, because I can’t tell you about sheep, I prefer showing  you the beautiful Shetland sheep. They are really magnificent !

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Yes, I know, they are seals. it’s only to know if you’re paying attention…

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Presentation of fleeces at Jamieson & Smith…

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With his Majesty, Oliver Henry, Director. A local star.

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And you can see that Jamieson & Smith has more  wool stash than me !

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All the fleece is used

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This wool is beautiful !

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Here it is the natural wool.

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But colored woll is beautiful too !

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It’is very difficult to resist, no ?

But we will talk about it another time…

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