Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A wintry scene
Intricate work
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
The raw material
Knitting?
A flock of sheep
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Teasing thread
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Rope making by hand
Intricate work here.
Weaving
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning
A fiddly job
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making
Concentration on the job
Wool working or rope making?
A wool carder
There is someone inside that!
Weaver at work
Spinning and winding wool
spinning by hand
Drawing the silk threads
A wool winder
Wool spinning
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
Wool half spun
Felt working
Many threads being drawn into one
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
A silk moth.
Balls of newly spun wool
Drawing silk threads
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning by hand
Spinning wool by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Felt hat making
Silk larva and the cocoon
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
wool spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making the hard way
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A historical loom?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Unravelling the threads
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