Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Concentration on the job
Unravelling the threads
Hat moulds
spinning by hand
Many threads being drawn into one
Knitting?
Spinning
Making a felt hat
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
A fiddly job
Balls of newly spun wool
Yarns ready for weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
Rope making the hard way
Wool spinning
Wool half spun
A sheepskin collar and coat
Gathering something, but what?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A lot of wool to be spun
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning
Intricate work here.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Finished felt hats
A silk moth.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Pressing the felt
A historical loom?
Drawing silk threads
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Weaving
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A flock of sheep
Silk cocoons
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Spinning
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
The pattern is progressing
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool waiting spinning
A wool carder
A proper sheepskin coat!
Unwinding the silk strands
Teasing thread
A wool winder
Hat moulds
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Shaping the hat
Drawing the silk threads
Inserting a thread
Weaving tools in use
wool spinning
Close up of the spinning process
There is a thread of some sort there.
A wintry scene
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