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    Sep 09, 2021 3 minutes
    WRITER: ROSA BERTOLI

    While travelling around the British countryside, chances are you will come across a flock of colourful sheep in a field at some point in your journey. A familiar sight for country folks, and a vibrant surprise for others, smit marks – the spray-painted patches on the sheep – are commonly used by shepherds in the UK to identify animals in their herd. The chromatic custom is also the starting point for Peter Saville’s Technicolour collection of upholstery textiles, rugs and curtains created in collaboration with Kvadrat.

    Saville grew up visiting

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