Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaver at work
Wool half spun
Drawing the silk threads
A silk moth.
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making the hard way
Spinning
Intricate work
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Rope making by hand
Rope making
Unravelling the threads
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A wool carder
Weaving in progress
Wool working or rope making?
There is someone inside that!
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving
Weaving
Finished felt hats
Rope making by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Soaking the silk cocoons
Balls of newly spun wool
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A historical loom?
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Knitting?
Intricate work here.
The pattern is progressing
Silk cocoons
All keeping warm in the cold.
Silk cocoons
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
wool spinning
Close up of the spinning process
spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
The sheep look neater!
Felt slippers
Spinning by hand
Concentration!
Silk being drawn into yarn
Hand spinning
Spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Knitting
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
A fiddly job
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
Hat moulds
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Hat moulds
Wool waiting spinning
Pressing the felt
Wool spinning
Felt slippers
Shaping the hat
Making a felt hat
Soaking the silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The pile is going down
The raw material
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
Concentration on the job
Gathering something, but what?
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning wool by hand
Teasing thread
A wool winder
Hand spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving in progress
Starting a thread
Felt working
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
A flock of sheep
A happy weaver
Inserting a coloured thread
There is a thread of some sort there.
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