Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There is someone inside that!
Weaving tools in use
Intricate work here.
A silk moth.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
The pattern is progressing
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Spinning and winding wool
Felt slippers
Starting a thread
spinning by hand
Weaving
Spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A happy weaver
Unravelling the threads
Hand spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Balls of newly spun wool
A wool winder
Making a felt hat
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Drawing the silk threads
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
All keeping warm in the cold.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Rope making by hand
Shaping the hat
Weaving
Teasing thread
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Concentration!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Rope making
Intricate work
Weaving
There is a thread of some sort there.
A flock of sheep
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wintry scene
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Close up of the spinning process
Felt working
Inserting a thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning
The pile is going down
A wool carder
Finished felt hats
Felt slippers
Wool waiting spinning
Knitting?
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning by hand
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Dressed for the weather.
Wool spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Silk being drawn into yarn
A fiddly job
Full length sheepskin coat
Teasing a thread of some sort
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning by hand
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