Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool working or rope making?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Rope making by hand
Spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Teasing a thread of some sort
A fiddly job
The sheep look neater!
The raw material
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Unwinding the silk strands
Intricate work
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Inserting a coloured thread
spinning by hand
Spinning
The pile is going down
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A flock of sheep
Yarns ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Competing for the woolliest coat.
There is someone inside that!
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Weaving tools in use
Knitting
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Full length sheepskin coat
Starting a thread
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Making a felt hat
Knitting?
Concentration on the job
A wool carder
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaving
Hat moulds
Weaving in progress
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving in progress
Unravelling the threads
Spinning and winding wool
wool spinning
Shaping the hat
Concentration!
Dressed for the weather.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
Spinning by hand
A happy weaver
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning by hand
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Weaver at work
Felt slippers
Rope making
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