With every rapid turn of the spinning wheel, the soft, white lamb’s wool is spun out into delicate threads. The threads are twisted into yarn, and the yarn is woven into a fine cloth, the color of snow. Then the cloth is dipped into rare, bright dyes which the wool thirstily drinks — indigo for blue and violet, saffron for yellow and gold, cochineal and cinnabar for scarlet. Such was the cloth that became Joseph’s coat of many colors.