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  • Sheep farmers Bago and Namgay Zam spin and card sheep wool, Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmer, Bago, cards wool, Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmer, Namgay Zam spins wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Close up of a woollen yathra blanket from the Bumthang region in central Bhutan. Yathra is a hand woven fabric made from the wool of sheep and yak and is the most famous textile product of Bumthang. Produced on a Tibetan style loom, yathra cloth is woven in strips and made into skarfs, jackets, blankets; table cloths and bags.
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  • A handwoven woollen yathra skarf on a Tibetan style loom outside her farmhouse in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Yathra is a hand woven fabric made from the wool of sheep and yak and is the most famous textile product of Bumthang. Yathra cloth is made into skarfs, jackets, table cloths and bags.
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  • Weaving a woollen yathra blanket on a Tibetan style loom in Chumey village, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Yathra is a hand woven fabric made from the wool of sheep and yak and is the most famous textile product of Bumthang. Yathra cloth is made into skarfs, jackets, blankets, tablecloths and bags.
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  • Dhenchen Chezom weaves a woollen yathra skarf on a Tibetan style loom outside her farmhouse in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Yathra is a hand woven fabric made from the wool of sheep and yak and is the most famous textile product of Bumthang. Yathra cloth is made into skarfs, jackets, blankets; table cloths and bags.
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  • Harris tweed fabric woven on a Hattersley loom at the home of Donald MacDonald, Shawbost village, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 19 July 2018. Harris Tweed must be made from pure virgin wool which has been dyed and spun on the islands and handwoven at the home of the weaver in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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  • A Layap woman from Laya spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Punakha, Western Bhutan. The Layap are inhabitants of the northernmost region of Bhutan. Their clothes are woven from yak hair and wool. They are a semi-nomadic tribe whose source of livelihood is dependent on yaks and sheep the products of which they barter with the people of Punakha for daily necessities. Given the geographic isolation of many of Bhutan's villages, there are 16 different dialects and 14 regional groups in the country. Many tribes have kept alive their distinct cultural identities through their dress, language and traditions over the years.
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  • A Layap woman from Laya holds a ball of sheep wool which was spun using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Punakha, Western Bhutan. The Layap are inhabitants of the northernmost region of Bhutan. Their clothes are woven from yak hair and wool. They are a semi-nomadic tribe whose source of livelihood is dependent on yaks and sheep the products of which they barter with the people of Punakha for daily necessities. Given the geographic isolation of many of Bhutan's villages, there are 16 different dialects and 14 regional groups in the country. Many tribes have kept alive their distinct cultural identities through their dress, language and traditions over the years.
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  • A young Layap woman from Laya spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Punakha, Western Bhutan. The Layap are inhabitants of the northernmost region of Bhutan. Traditionally, their clothes are woven from yak hair and wool although the younger women often wear the kira, the Bhutanese national dress. They are a semi-nomadic tribe whose source of livelihood is dependent on yaks and sheep the products of which they barter with the people of Punakha for daily necessities. Given the geographic isolation of many of Bhutan's villages, there are 16 different dialects and 14 regional groups in the country. Many tribes have kept alive their distinct cultural identities through their dress, language and traditions over the years.
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  • A Brokpa woman holds a ball of sheep wool which was spun using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs. Given the geographic isolation of many of Bhutan's villages, there are 16 different dialects and 14 regional groups in the country. Many tribes have kept alive their distinct cultural identities through their dress, language and traditions over the years.
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  • A Brokpa woman weaves a man's 'gho' (traditional tunic) from sheep wool on a backstrap loom in the remote and roadless village of Sakteng, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • A Romanian woman wearing a headskarf holds a sheep's fleece after shearing, Poiana Sibiului, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A shepherd's wife stirring sheep's milk in a cauldron over the fire to make cheese at a sheepfold, Romania. Whereas in many countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A cauldron of sheep's milk for making cheese to make cheese at a sheepfold, Romania. Whereas in many countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A woollen sock or caltuni often worn with peasant sandals (opinci) by women in remote villages in rural Maramures. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A close up of a sheep’s fleece at at the Norsk Folkemuseum on 28th August 2016 in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, at Bygdoy, Oslo, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country.
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  • Sheep farmer’s grand-daughter holds a small lamb at a sheep farm in Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • “Maria Behety” sheep farm outside the city of Rio Grande. The beginning of the shearing season. Here 45.000 head of sheep are in the process of being sheared in the world’s largest shearing shed ( galpon de esquila) over a two week period.
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  • Portrait of a shepherd wearing plastic leggings and a traditional shepherd's hat in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Shepherd’s hats are totally handmade. The interior should be white and it should hold water so that the shepherd can use it to collect water from streams to wash in when he’s up in the mountains. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • As early morning mist makes its way across moors and mountain grasses, we see a dead ewe that lies decomposing at a collapsed dry stone wall on Nether Moor, Derbyshire. The sheep has been left behind the rest of the farmer's flock and as it decomposes, its eyes have already been pecked out and its white front incisor teeth gaping, as if grinning in death. This is a loss of revenue of vital income at a time of economic hardship for those in this tough industry. In the background we see the moors rising to it summit in the area called Edale, a valley in North Derbyshire, 15 miles west of Sheffield, in the heart of the Peak District National Park. Edale valley is a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepherds when tending their sheep on the hillsides.
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  • Portrait of Mihai Vlad, a shepherd in Soars village, Saxon Transylvania, Romania. His shepherds cloak, a handwoven checked woollen blanket is particular to this area. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • Portrait of a shepherd in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. His shepherd's hat and cloak, a handwoven checked woollen blanket are particular to the Brasov region. Shepherd’s hats are totally handmade. The interior should be white and it should hold water so that the shepherd can use it to collect water from streams to wash in when he’s up in the mountains.
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  • Juana Gutierrez Contreras spinning churro sheep wool in her natural dyes studio in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 25 November 2018. The handspun yarn comes from the nearby mountain village of Chichicapa
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • A Brokpa woman spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs. Their distinctive hat known as tsipee cham is made of yak felt with long twisted tufts, said to keep the rain from running onto their faces.
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  • Elderly Romanian peasant farmers hand shear a sheep, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers in Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A ball of handspun churro sheep wool from the mountain village of Chichicapam in Oaxaca, Mexico. The wool is used to weave blankets and other woven goods in the weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle
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  • Cristina Velasco spinning wool in the Zapotec village of Chichicapam in Oaxaca, Mexico on 30 November 2018. The village of Chichicapam is located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains and is an important centre for wool processing. The wool from Churro sheep, first introduced to Mexico by the Spanish, is hand spun using a drop-spindle
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  • Cristina Velasco carding wool in the Zapotec village of Chichicapam in Oaxaca, Mexico on 30 November 2018. The village of Chichicapam is located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains and is an important centre for wool processing. The wool from Churro sheep, first introduced to Mexico by the Spanish, is carded before being hand spun using a drop-spindle
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  • Juana Gutierrez Contreras holding a ball of hand spun churro sheep wool  in the natural dyes studio in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 25 November 2018. The handspun yarn comes from the nearby mountain village of Chichicapam
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  • Juana Gutierrez Contreras spinning churro sheep wool in her natural dyes studio in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 25 November 2018. The handspun yarn comes from the nearby mountain village of Chichicapa
    DSCF4779cc_1.jpg
  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • A freshly cut sheep looks for her lambs outside the barn where the cutting takes place. Sheep are sheared at a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
    AB9A4820.jpg
  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
    AB9A4810.jpg
  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • The lambs are separated from their mothers and let out past the shearing. Sheep are sheared at a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
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  • A lamb is given a shot of anti-worm medicine during sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
    AB9A4699.jpg
  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
    AB9A4656.jpg
  • Sheep shearing on a farm in the Scottish Borders July 26 2016. A team of two sheep shearers cut sheep owned by farmer Stewart Ranciman. The team plus helpers gets through 400 sheep in one day taking 1min 20 sec. per sheep. Rancimans sheep live in the hills and only come into the farm to lamb and to get cut.
    AB9A4598.jpg
  • A Brokpa woman weaves a traditional sheep wool blanket on a backstrap loom in the remote and roadless village of Sakteng, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • A Brokpa woman weaves a traditional sheep wool blanket on a backstrap loom in the remote and roadless village of Sakteng, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • A Brokpa woman spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs. Their distinctive hat known as tsipee cham is made of yak felt with long twisted tufts, said to keep the rain from running onto their faces.
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  • A Brokpa woman spins sheep wool using a drop spindle called a Yoekpa, Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • Elderly Romanian peasant farmers hand shear a sheep, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers in Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep waiting to be sheared.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • A Zapotec woman carries skeins of natural Churro sheep wool in the weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico on 27 November 2018. Weaving blankets has been part of their heritage for thousands of years, the knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep shearing season 18th of June 2020, Stow in the Scottish Borders. Freshly cut sheep. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep gets a shot of anti-worm medicine while waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Freshly sheared wool is packed down in large bags. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Stewart packing down freshly sheared wool into bags. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. A sheep waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep gets a shot of anti-worm medicine while waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Portrait of sheep farmer Dawa Zam and her son Ngawang Thinley in Namephey village in the remote Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmers dosing their sheep with salt using a bamboo tube which they do every day, Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmer, Bago holds a small lamb at his sheep farm in Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmer, Bago and his grand-daughter hold small lambs at his sheep farm in Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Shepherd hand milking a sheep at a sheepfold in the Carpathian Mountains. Each flock of around 500 sheep is based at a stana or sheepfold, a very basic hut in a clearing with a strunga or milking enclosure of hurdles which is moved every few weeks in good weather or weekly in bad. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A Romanian peasant farmer sells home distilled horinca (plum brandy) at Ocna Sugatag market, Maramures, Romania. She is wearing a striped apron (zadie) made of a single width of woven wool with horizontal blue and black stripes, traditional footwear (opinci) worn with felt foot wraps (obiele) and a fleecy jacket (guba). Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • An elderly woman wearing traditional footwear (opinci) spins wool by hand outside her home, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • Two Romanian peasant women with a sheep at the livestock market in Ocna Sugatag in Maramures, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • Sheep graze on a hillside outside Chewton Mendip, Somerset. Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England and within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Chew Valley. Wool has for centuries been a source of great wealth to the towns of south-west England whose legacies are the fine country homes of merchants, the churches and cathedrals bestowed on the local communities. Nowadays in ther Mendip Hills, dairy farming has become more lucrative.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep shearing season 18th of June 2020, Stow in the Scottish Borders. Freshly cut sheep. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep gets a shot of anti-worm medicine while waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sheep gets a shot of anti-worm medicine while waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. A sheep waiting to be sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. A lamb runs off out while the mother is sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
    3E9A4596.jpg
  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing seaon they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl on a break. Carl and Craig work  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing seaon they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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