Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
Inserting a thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning the traditional way.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Spinning
Teasing thread
The pile is going down
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Weaver at work
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Drawing the silk threads
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
A wool carder
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
spinning by hand
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making by hand
A historical loom?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk into skeins
A happy weaver
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Unravelling the threads
Soaking the silk cocoons
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