Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
Dressed for the weather.
Yarns ready for weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt slippers
Weaving in progress
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Starting a thread
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk cocoons
Pressing the felt
Wool spinning
spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
A flock of sheep
Soaking the silk cocoons
Knitting
The pattern is progressing
Spinning by hand
A wool winder
Knitting?
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Silk being drawn into yarn
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
The sheep look neater!
A wool carder
All keeping warm in the cold.
Hat moulds
A fiddly job
Intricate work here.
Weaving
Yarns ready for weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making by hand
wool spinning
Teasing thread
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