
A Wool Fleece Brings the Family Together
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A wool fleece brings the family together around a low table in the timber shed. The boy lifts a long loose tuft into the sunlight, smiling at the way its fibers stretch and separate. Beside him, his sister studies another small piece between both hands, her dark braid resting over coral sleeves and teal dungarees.
Their grandfather watches with a broad smile, holding a wooden hand carder above the cream fleece. Warm light picks out individual curls of wool and the grain of the table, while open gaps in the shed reveal the pasture beyond. The photograph centers on touch and discovery, with a familiar material becoming something worth examining closely.
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