The Harris Tweed® Journal

Freshly Shorn Blackfaces

17th August

A Closer Look at Harris Tweed®
Series: Part 1

Freshly shorn Blackfaces carefully commute to pastures new, their former fleeces rolled, tucked and bound for sale and perhaps spinning. Not every flock obeys the Highway Code so obediently and a blast from a car horn doesn’t tend to hurry their own horns along either.

 

Harris Tweed Authority Lewis Mackenzie Sheep

Photograph by Lewis Mackenzie
Words by Mike Donald

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