COST.400,000

Water-based media, wool on canvas  
120x244 cm
2025

An estimated 400,000 sheep were needed to clothe the British Army in the 1850s alone. White wool, favored for its dyeability, was spun into military red and royal blue—garments of conquest. Black fleece, deemed less valuable, was used for utilitarian fabrics: the bodies of laborers, prisoners, and the poor.