Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Pressing the felt
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning wool by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaving tools in use
Hat moulds
Rope making
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool spinning
A historical loom?
A fiddly job
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning
Concentration!
Silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
The sheep look neater!
Intricate work here.
A wintry scene
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Spinning
Knitting?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning
Wool waiting spinning
A wool carder
Hat moulds
Knitting
Spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving in progress
Wool half spun
There is someone inside that!
Weaver at work
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Balls of newly spun wool
Silk cocoons
Gathering something, but what?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The raw material
Felt slippers
Felt slippers
Spinning and winding wool
Finished felt hats
Felt hat making
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Starting a thread
Wool spinning
Concentration on the job
Close up of the spinning process
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Drawing silk into skeins
A happy weaver
The pattern is progressing
Hand spinning
A silk moth.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning
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