Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
The pattern is progressing
Starting a thread
Teasing a thread of some sort
Balls of newly spun wool
The sheep look neater!
Spinning by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Intricate work here.
Weaving in progress
Yarns ready for weaving
Finished felt hats
Many threads being drawn into one
A silk moth.
Hand spinning
Felt hat making
There is someone inside that!
A wool carder
It looks a mess whatever it is.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Yarns ready for weaving
Intricate work
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Pressing the felt
spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Concentration!
Gathering something, but what?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
A wintry scene
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning
Drawing silk threads
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
Keeping warm with the sheep
Knitting?
Close up of the spinning process
The raw material
A fiddly job
Silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool working or rope making?
Weaving in progress
The pile is going down
A historical loom?
Wool spinning by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Inserting a coloured thread
Dressed for the weather.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Teasing thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving tools in use
Felt slippers
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool waiting spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Felt slippers
Inserting a thread
Concentration on the job
Weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
Knitting
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt working
Unravelling the threads
Hand spinning
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