Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool working or rope making?
Drawing silk into skeins
A fiddly job
Many threads being drawn into one
Making a felt hat
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Hat moulds
Spinning and winding wool
Knitting
Pressing the felt
A happy weaver
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning
Knitting?
Dressed for the weather.
Drawing silk threads
Balls of newly spun wool
A wool winder
Shaping the hat
The pile is going down
There is a thread of some sort there.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Rope making
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Spinning wool by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Silk being drawn into yarn
A flock of sheep
A proper sheepskin coat!
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Unravelling the threads
Weaver at work
Inserting a coloured thread
Concentration!
Hand spinning
wool spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving
Intricate work
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
Drawing the silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Spinning
Hand spinning
Weaving
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