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