Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Soaking the silk cocoons
The pile is going down
Weaving tools in use
The sheep look neater!
Inserting a thread
Felt hat making
A flock of sheep
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Soaking the silk cocoons
The raw material
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Yarns ready for weaving
Starting a thread
Rope making
Drawing silk into skeins
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Teasing a thread of some sort
A sheepskin collar and coat
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
A fiddly job
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaver at work
Felt working
Silk cocoons
Spinning
Wool spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
wool spinning
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