Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There is someone inside that!
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a thread
Felt hat making
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk into skeins
Many threads being drawn into one
There is a thread of some sort there.
Rope making the hard way
Felt working
Intricate work
Weaving in progress
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaving in progress
Balls of newly spun wool
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A wool carder
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Felt slippers
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Teasing thread
Knitting?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning and winding wool
A flock of sheep
A silk moth.
Silk cocoons
Rope making
Drawing silk threads
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Inserting a coloured thread
A fiddly job
Pressing the felt
Concentration on the job
spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Hand spinning
The pile is going down
Weaving tools in use
Spinning by hand
Knitting
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
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