Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Teasing thread
Wool spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Wool spinning by hand
Concentration!
Spinning
Hand spinning
Pressing the felt
Felt hat making
Keeping warm with the sheep
Teasing a thread of some sort
Unravelling the threads
Spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Many threads being drawn into one
A wintry scene
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving in progress
Close up of the spinning process
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
The raw material
Drawing silk into skeins
Rope making the hard way
It looks a mess whatever it is.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Rope making by hand
A wool carder
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Weaving
Knitting
Spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Wool spinning
Weaving
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Inserting a coloured thread
wool spinning
Wool half spun
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Rope making
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
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