Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Concentration!
A wintry scene
Rope making
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
A lot of wool to be spun
Inserting a coloured thread
Silk larva and the cocoon
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Wool working or rope making?
Wool spinning by hand
Pressing the felt
Spinning
A flock of sheep
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool awaiting spinning
Inserting a thread
A wool winder
Spinning and winding wool
A silk moth.
Spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
All keeping warm in the cold.
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning
The pattern is progressing
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The pile is going down
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool waiting spinning
wool spinning
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A wool carder
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
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