Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Silk cocoons
Wool half spun
A wintry scene
Wool spinning
A flock of sheep
A fiddly job
Spinning by hand
A wool winder
Hand spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Hand spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A historical loom?
Gathering something, but what?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Spinning
Hat moulds
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning
Dressed for the weather.
The sheep look neater!
Felt working
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Wool working or rope making?
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Concentration on the job
Finished felt hats
Shaping the hat
A happy weaver
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning by hand
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making the hard way
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk larva and the cocoon
A sheepskin collar and coat
Soaking the silk cocoons
wool spinning
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