Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Teasing thread
Spinning wool by hand
A fiddly job
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Inserting a thread
There is someone inside that!
wool spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Close up of the spinning process
Soaking the silk cocoons
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool half spun
Pressing the felt
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Spinning and winding wool
Wool awaiting spinning
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Drawing silk into skeins
A proper sheepskin coat!
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning by hand
spinning by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
A wintry scene
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Full length sheepskin coat
A lot of wool to be spun
Knitting?
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
The raw material
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
Knitting
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Starting a thread
A happy weaver
Felt hat making
Weaving
Concentration!
Weaving tools in use
A wool carder
Spinning
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