Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a thread
Wool waiting spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Unravelling the threads
Many threads being drawn into one
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Felt slippers
Teasing thread
Silk cocoons
The pile is going down
A sheepskin collar and coat
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A historical loom?
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning
Felt slippers
Silk larva and the cocoon
Yarns ready for weaving
There is someone inside that!
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt hat making
Gathering something, but what?
Knitting?
The sheep look neater!
The raw material
spinning by hand
Weaver at work
Spinning
A wintry scene
A wool winder
Silk being drawn into yarn
It looks a mess whatever it is.
wool spinning
Spinning by hand
A wool carder
Dressed for the weather.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
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