Sheep-folk and bells continued
Lambs!
Lambs are highly treasured, as most young are. A new born lambs are wrapped in family cloths, ornate and decorative pieces made from the wool of immediate ancestors. Some family cloths have great variety in color leading to carefully made patterns generation to generation. Others have subtle changes that exhibit and require exquisite attention to detail in order to see the carefully woven additions. Small bells donated from ancestors horns are secured on the cloths.
When two family ends join, the cloths are combined through a series of frogging (undoing the weave or knit of the fabric) and felting (joining the wool together) and the bells adorned to the singular piece.
In the instance of too many bells being generationally collected, a ceremony is held to melt down the bell metals of passed, and a new single bell is made. The excess kept and carried for the future making of beading, jewelry, and, of course, more bells.
As lambs grow large enough to toddle, a large lamb bell is fixed to their tails. Comical in size at first but they grow into it. Clothing for the lambs are made from the parents’ wool to claim the child as theirs physically and olfactorily, so they smell like their Babas :).
Lambs will keep their lamb bells until adulthood, something established by a sheep having reached maturity to grow enough wool to make their own full-coverage cloak.
