Tapestries from the Stephens studio are made primarily of mohair, a tough luxurious fibre produced by angora goats farmed in the northern and eastern cape as well as neighbouring Lesotho.  The mohair is sent in it’s raw state to Swaziland.

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Photographs courtesy of John Hodgkiss

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