Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Starting a thread
The raw material
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Close up of the spinning process
Felt hat making
Concentration on the job
Wool half spun
Weaver at work
spinning by hand
A historical loom?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool awaiting spinning
Felt working
Finished felt hats
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Intricate work
The pile is going down
A silk moth.
Dressed for the weather.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A fiddly job
Knitting
Weaving
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool working or rope making?
There is someone inside that!
Rope making
Drawing the silk threads
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
Spinning
A wintry scene
Spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning by hand
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