Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning and winding wool
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving in progress
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
A lot of wool to be spun
Unravelling the threads
A fiddly job
Rope making the hard way
Rope making by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
spinning by hand
Gathering something, but what?
A wintry scene
Felt hat making
A silk moth.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Many threads being drawn into one
There is someone inside that!
The sheep look neater!
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Soaking the silk cocoons
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Intricate work
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Inserting a thread
Silk cocoons
Making a felt hat
Close up of the spinning process
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Drawing silk into skeins
Balls of newly spun wool
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Concentration!
Felt slippers
Weaving
Hand spinning
Knitting
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