Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Knitting?
Inserting a coloured thread
Concentration on the job
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving
A fiddly job
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Hat moulds
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Drawing silk threads
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
Finished felt hats
Concentration!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Rope making by hand
The raw material
Intricate work
Hand spinning
Weaving tools in use
Knitting
Spinning wool by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Shaping the hat
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
A wintry scene
A wool carder
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Spinning by hand
Inserting a thread
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool waiting spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Intricate work here.
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving in progress
Wool half spun
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Close up of the spinning process
Many threads being drawn into one
Hat moulds
Weaver at work
A silk moth.
Wool working or rope making?
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