Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
The sheep look neater!
Making a felt hat
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning
Weaving
Teasing thread
Wool spinning
Intricate work
Weaving in progress
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving
The pile is going down
A fiddly job
Hand spinning
A wintry scene
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt slippers
Yarns ready for weaving
Knitting
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Felt working
Silk cocoons
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving tools in use
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Gathering something, but what?
Rope making
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
Knitting?
A flock of sheep
Silk being drawn into yarn
A lot of wool to be spun
Drawing silk threads
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Spinning
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Finished felt hats
Inserting a thread
The raw material
A wool carder
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A wool winder
Spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
A sheepskin collar and coat
wool spinning
Hat moulds
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A happy weaver
Rope making by hand
Weaver at work
Balls of newly spun wool
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