Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Close up of the spinning process
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making by hand
Spinning
A fiddly job
spinning by hand
A flock of sheep
Wool working or rope making?
A wintry scene
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt hat making
Felt working
Wool awaiting spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Inserting a thread
Teasing thread
Silk larva and the cocoon
Balls of newly spun wool
Unwinding the silk strands
Spinning and winding wool
Keeping warm with the sheep
Soaking the silk cocoons
A historical loom?
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Drawing silk into skeins
Knitting
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning by hand
Weaving
The sheep look neater!
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