Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Pressing the felt
Spinning and winding wool
Concentration!
Unravelling the threads
Felt slippers
Weaving tools in use
Hand spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A historical loom?
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
Inserting a thread
A flock of sheep
Weaving
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Rope making the hard way
spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Intricate work here.
Rope making by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A sheepskin collar and coat
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning by hand
Finished felt hats
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
Felt slippers
A fiddly job
Wool working or rope making?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool awaiting spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
A silk moth.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
Weaving
Weaving
Knitting?
The raw material
Hand spinning
The pile is going down
The sheep look neater!
Starting a thread
A happy weaver
Drawing silk threads
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Felt hat making
Yarns ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Unwinding the silk strands
Teasing a thread of some sort
wool spinning
Intricate work
A wool winder
Wool half spun
Weaver at work
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A lot of wool to be spun
The pattern is progressing
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Balls of newly spun wool
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
A wintry scene
Teasing thread
Rope making
Keeping warm with the sheep
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Full length sheepskin coat
Felt working
A wool carder
Hat moulds
Spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Concentration on the job
There is someone inside that!
Drawing silk into skeins
A proper sheepskin coat!
Many threads being drawn into one
Spinning wool by hand
Hat moulds
Silk larva and the cocoon
Soaking the silk cocoons
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
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