Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt hat making
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
All keeping warm in the cold.
A wool carder
Silk cocoons
Hat moulds
Felt working
Gathering something, but what?
Rope making
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Weaver at work
Spinning wool by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Yarns ready for weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
spinning by hand
The pile is going down
Shaping the hat
Finished felt hats
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a thread
Spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving
He looks warmer than the photographer.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Unravelling the threads
A historical loom?
A fiddly job
Making a felt hat
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
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