Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Drawing silk into skeins
Intricate work here.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hand spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool half spun
Balls of newly spun wool
The pattern is progressing
Spinning
Spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
wool spinning
Felt hat making
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Close up of the spinning process
A happy weaver
A wintry scene
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Concentration!
Weaving tools in use
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
spinning by hand
There is someone inside that!
Weaver at work
The sheep look neater!
Knitting
Pressing the felt
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving
A wool winder
Hat moulds
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Drawing the silk threads
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Inserting a coloured thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Spinning
Teasing thread
Finished felt hats
Yarns ready for weaving
A fiddly job
Weaving in progress
Wool waiting spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool working or rope making?
Dressed for the weather.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
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