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Two masses of unspun grey wool, a turned wooden spindle and a tied roll of birch bark lying on a pale workbench among wood shavings

yarn wood and a spindle

The materials are the whole point: a para is made, from ordinary things a woman had to hand. Nothing in the recipe is exotic.

Basis: The recorded construction of the familiar · AI-generated

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