I have always liked the Welsh or Scottish aprons and tee-shirts showing dozens of white sheep and one black sheep. Today I looked closely for the first time and realised that the white sheep on the right is looking suspiciously sideways at the oblivious, unconcerned black sheep. Red apron with white sheep and one black sheep. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. This came from Ulster Weavers many moons ago. You can buy woolly winter jumpers with sheep designs showing multiple sheep. My second apron features cats. All colours of cats, black. Four black, one white. Nine grey, some plain and others partly white. Six deep orange. Nine pale orange. I never looked closely before. Now I see so much more. One cat has turned its back. Refusing to be photographed or painted? Maybe it is looking for its kitten. The matching kitten is hiding, or hidden, the other side of the grey cat to the left. Look again and you see that some cats have a kitten sitting alongside. Some kittens are the same ...