Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
The pattern is progressing
Spinning and winding wool
Wool waiting spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Felt slippers
A fiddly job
Drawing silk threads
Weaving
Weaving in progress
The raw material
There is someone inside that!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The pile is going down
All keeping warm in the cold.
spinning by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Knitting?
Spinning wool by hand
A silk moth.
Rope making the hard way
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wool carder
A happy weaver
Wool awaiting spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving
Intricate work
Yarns ready for weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
Hat moulds
Weaver at work
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing thread
Knitting
Wool working or rope making?
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Inserting a thread
Spinning
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Dressed for the weather.
Rope making
Concentration on the job
Soaking the silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Felt working
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Unravelling the threads
Wool spinning by hand
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