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