Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving tools in use
Drawing silk into skeins
Spinning by hand
Dressed for the weather.
Concentration!
A proper sheepskin coat!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt hat making
Knitting?
Drawing silk threads
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Knitting
Finished felt hats
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Balls of newly spun wool
A silk moth.
Weaving
Making a felt hat
Weaving
A flock of sheep
A happy weaver
Intricate work
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Wool spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Shaping the hat
Spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Inserting a coloured thread
Silk being drawn into yarn
A lot of wool to be spun
Close up of the spinning process
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Yarns ready for weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hat moulds
Weaving
Gathering something, but what?
Teasing thread
spinning by hand
wool spinning
Concentration on the job
Wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Silk cocoons
There is someone inside that!
All keeping warm in the cold.
The pile is going down
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning
Inserting a thread
A wool winder
Weaving in progress
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