Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A historical loom?
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Soaking the silk cocoons
The pile is going down
Wool spinning
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Spinning wool by hand
A fiddly job
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Unravelling the threads
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
It looks a mess whatever it is.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A wintry scene
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A silk moth.
Intricate work
Rope making
Weaver at work
Silk cocoons
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a thread
The raw material
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
Felt slippers
spinning by hand
Wool half spun
Pressing the felt
A sheepskin collar and coat
Rope making the hard way
Knitting
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Hat moulds
Silk larva and the cocoon
Teasing thread
A flock of sheep
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt working
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
wool spinning
Spinning
Shaping the hat
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
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