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