Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Knitting
Hand spinning
Close up of the spinning process
There is someone inside that!
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Unravelling the threads
Spinning
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
A silk moth.
Wool spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning
Wool half spun
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool working or rope making?
The sheep look neater!
Drawing silk into skeins
Soaking the silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning
A wool carder
Intricate work
Keeping warm with the sheep
A flock of sheep
Spinning and winding wool
Hand spinning
Drawing the silk threads
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool awaiting spinning
Felt working
Wool spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Inserting a thread
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Concentration!
Making a felt hat
Hat moulds
Weaver at work
Shaping the hat
Balls of newly spun wool
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