Robert Morrison feeds his flock of ewes. Robert keeps the ewes for their wool(?), lambs, and meat. The long blue mark across their back is Robert's mark; necessary as flocks can get mixed, especially if the ewe's go into common grazing.
The ewe's with a green mark on their thigh are, as Ribert puts it "for the freezer, the others are for the ram."
This flock provides some income for Robert. He has worked with sheep all his life,telling us how, as a teenager, he would go with the dogs to round up sheep from the common moors, lifting them bodily into the sorting pens. I looked at the size of these sheep, and mentioned that he must have been a strong young lad. "Oh no! The sheep were smaller then. I couldn't have lifted these all day."
These are merino sheep, a larger breed than the traditional Lewis sheep. Nonetheless, at 80 Robert is still a strong man with no problem getting over the fence to feed his flock.
Robert Morrison feeds his flock of ewes. Robert keeps the ewes for their wool(?), lambs, and meat. The long blue mark across their back is Robert's mark; necessary as flocks can get mixed, especially if the ewe's go into common grazing.
The ewe's with a green mark on their thigh are, as Ribert puts it "for the freezer, the others are for the ram."
This flock provides some income for Robert. He has worked with sheep all his life,telling us how, as a teenager, he would go with the dogs to round up sheep from the common moors, lifting them bodily into the sorting pens. I looked at the size of these sheep, and mentioned that he must have been a strong young lad. "Oh no! The sheep were smaller then. I couldn't have lifted these all day."
These are merino sheep, a larger breed than the traditional Lewis sheep. Nonetheless, at 80 Robert is still a strong man with no problem getting over the fence to feed his flock.
Robert Morrison feeds his flock of ewes. Robert keeps the ewes for their wool(?), lambs, and meat. The long blue mark across their back is Robert's mark; necessary as flocks can get mixed, especially if the ewe's go into common grazing.
The ewe's with a green mark on their thigh are, as Ribert puts it "for the freezer, the others are for the ram."
This flock provides some income for Robert. He has worked with sheep all his life,telling us how, as a teenager, he would go with the dogs to round up sheep from the common moors, lifting them bodily into the sorting pens. I looked at the size of these sheep, and mentioned that he must have been a strong young lad. "Oh no! The sheep were smaller then. I couldn't have lifted these all day."
These are merino sheep, a larger breed than the traditional Lewis sheep. Nonetheless, at 80 Robert is still a strong man with no problem getting over the fence to feed his flock.
Robert Morrison feeds his flock of ewes. Robert keeps the ewes for their wool(?), lambs, and meat. The long blue mark across their back is Robert's mark; necessary as flocks can get mixed, especially if the ewe's go into common grazing.
The ewe's with a green mark on their thigh are, as Ribert puts it "for the freezer, the others are for the ram."
This flock provides some income for Robert. He has worked with sheep all his life,telling us how, as a teenager, he would go with the dogs to round up sheep from the common moors, lifting them bodily into the sorting pens. I looked at the size of these sheep, and mentioned that he must have been a strong young lad. "Oh no! The sheep were smaller then. I couldn't have lifted these all day."
These are merino sheep, a larger breed than the traditional Lewis sheep. Nonetheless, at 80 Robert is still a strong man with no problem getting over the fence to feed his flock.
Robert leans into the wind coming off the atlantic. Anywhere else this would be a gale. He is going to check on the new lamb at the back of his croft.
A mother with her new lamb bar visible in the grass beside her.
Robert Morrison made the bricks in this wall and his brother's house behind. The bricks are made from shingle off the nearby beach mixed with cement. The mix is formed in a manual press and dried on teh ground to make the bricks.
Anna Morrison shows Sheryl the cloth she is working on.
Anna works as a darner for the Shawbost mills. She checks the lengths of Harris tweed for mistakes and loose threads. A lose thread sounds easier, as it must be only tied off and into the cloth.
This 70m length of Harris tweed is missing yellow thread from its pattern. Anna must weave the missing thread along the whole 70m with a needle. It is long painstaking work that needs a good eye and a patient mind.
Anna Morrison points out the missing thread in the cloth she is working on.
Anna works as a darner for the Shawbost mills. She checks the lengths of Harris tweed for mistakes and loose threads. A lose thread sounds easier, as it must be only tied off and into the cloth.
This 70m length of Harris tweed is missing yellow thread from its pattern. Anna must weave the missing thread along the whole 70m with a needle. It is long painstaking work that needs a good eye and a patient mind.
Anna Morrison works as a darner for the Shawbost mills. She checks the lengths of Harris tweed for mistakes and loose threads. A lose thread sounds easier, as it must be only tied off and into the cloth.
This 70m length of Harris tweed is missing yellow thread from its pattern. Anna must weave the missing thread along the whole 70m with a needle. It is long painstaking work that needs a good eye and a patient mind.
Completed cloths.
Anna Morrison works as a darner for the Shawbost mills. She checks the lengths of Harris tweed for mistakes and loose threads. A lose thread sounds easier, as it must be only tied off and into the cloth.
This 70m length of Harris tweed is missing yellow thread from its pattern. Anna must weave the missing thread along the whole 70m with a needle. It is long painstaking work that needs a good eye and a patient mind.
