Up to 12 colors of bright merino wool yarn are pulled from cones dangling from the ceiling into the teal-colored machines' high-speed knitting needles.

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The men then construct the carpet loom - a horizontal frame placed on the ground - while the women convert the wool into yarn on spinning wheels.

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Gettle, 29, who spins her own yarn with wool from their five rams, then turned a bedroom into a craft room for her spinning wheel.

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The yarns were made by pulling sheets of nanotubes from "forests" of the tubes and twisting them to form a coiled structure - much as yarn is made from wool.

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Coloured yarn is tied to the wool web to create the carpet.

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