Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaving
Knitting?
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Inserting a thread
Weaving
Rope making by hand
A happy weaver
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
The raw material
Starting a thread
Drawing silk into skeins
Felt slippers
Keeping warm with the sheep
The sheep look neater!
Soaking the silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving in progress
The pattern is progressing
wool spinning
A flock of sheep
Pressing the felt
Rope making by hand
Making a felt hat
Hat moulds
Wool awaiting spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Many threads being drawn into one
Rope making the hard way
Spinning wool by hand
Intricate work here.
Wool waiting spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Rope making
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Intricate work
Spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
A fiddly job
Wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
Wool half spun
Inserting a coloured thread
Finished felt hats
A proper sheepskin coat!
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
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