Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving tools in use
Drawing silk threads
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaving
A flock of sheep
Weaving
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Concentration!
A wintry scene
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Felt hat making
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A historical loom?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Starting a thread
Weaving in progress
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool half spun
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Balls of newly spun wool
Soaking the silk cocoons
A fiddly job
Silk cocoons
The raw material
Inserting a thread
Hat moulds
Silk larva and the cocoon
Intricate work
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