Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Concentration on the job
Yarns ready for weaving
A happy weaver
The sheep look neater!
Spinning by hand
Rope making
Shaping the hat
Teasing thread
Concentration!
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Making a felt hat
A wool carder
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hat moulds
Silk cocoons
Soaking the silk cocoons
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making the hard way
A flock of sheep
Intricate work here.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Drawing silk into skeins
Starting a thread
The raw material
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Soaking the silk cocoons
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning
Spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
The pile is going down
Intricate work
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool waiting spinning
spinning by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Felt slippers
wool spinning
Weaver at work
Unravelling the threads
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning wool by hand
A fiddly job
Rope making by hand
A wintry scene
Inserting a thread
Balls of newly spun wool
Many threads being drawn into one
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool spinning by hand
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