Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A wool carder
Silk larva and the cocoon
A silk moth.
The raw material
Concentration!
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Spinning and winding wool
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning
Spinning
wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Rope making by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Teasing thread
Spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool awaiting spinning
Knitting
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Dressed for the weather.
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Felt working
There is someone inside that!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Yarns ready for weaving
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Intricate work here.
Rope making the hard way
Weaving tools in use
Drawing silk threads
Spinning
A historical loom?
The pile is going down
Finished felt hats
A fiddly job
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