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