Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Concentration on the job
Knitting
Wool half spun
Spinning and winding wool
Making a felt hat
Weaving tools in use
All keeping warm in the cold.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
A happy weaver
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Wool waiting spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Teasing thread
Silk cocoons
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt hat making
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns ready for weaving
Concentration!
Dressed for the weather.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A wool carder
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning
wool spinning
Knitting?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
There is someone inside that!
Gathering something, but what?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving
Felt slippers
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Balls of newly spun wool
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
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