Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing thread
spinning by hand
Teasing a thread of some sort
Rope making by hand
Weaving
Dressed for the weather.
Full length sheepskin coat
Inserting a thread
wool spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
There is a thread of some sort there.
A flock of sheep
Silk being drawn into yarn
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making the hard way
Inserting a coloured thread
Concentration!
Knitting
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A happy weaver
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning wool by hand
Rope making
A historical loom?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Hat moulds
A sheepskin collar and coat
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wool carder
Balls of newly spun wool
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
Weaving
The raw material
Starting a thread
Weaving in progress
Spinning
Felt working
A fiddly job
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Concentration on the job
Knitting?
Weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning by hand
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Pressing the felt
Drawing silk into skeins
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