Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt slippers
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
Silk being drawn into yarn
A silk moth.
Weaving in progress
Drawing silk into skeins
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hat moulds
Wool waiting spinning
Hat moulds
Weaving
wool spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Many threads being drawn into one
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Keeping warm with the sheep
Silk cocoons
Spinning
A wool carder
A historical loom?
There is someone inside that!
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Concentration on the job
Wool spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Silk larva and the cocoon
All keeping warm in the cold.
Knitting
Rope making by hand
Weaver at work
Weaving tools in use
Wool half spun
Wool spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Rope making by hand
Intricate work
Spinning
The pile is going down
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Concentration!
Yarns ready for weaving
Knitting?
Inserting a coloured thread
The raw material
A sheepskin collar and coat
Felt hat making
Unwinding the silk strands
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Wool spinning
Drawing the silk threads
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Pressing the felt
The sheep look neater!
Full length sheepskin coat
A lot of wool to be spun
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Making a felt hat
The pattern is progressing
Hand spinning
Felt working
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Intricate work here.
Unravelling the threads
Weaving
Teasing thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning and winding wool
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