Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Wool waiting spinning
Wool spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hat moulds
Silk being drawn into yarn
Inserting a thread
Rope making by hand
Rope making
Spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
Yarns ready for weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Concentration on the job
There is someone inside that!
Teasing thread
Hand spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Concentration!
Knitting
Weaver at work
Drawing the silk threads
Unwinding the silk strands
A wool carder
Gathering something, but what?
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Balls of newly spun wool
wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
Shaping the hat
Close up of the spinning process
Starting a thread
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Weaving tools in use
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A wool winder
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Spinning
A historical loom?
A silk moth.
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaving
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Felt slippers
A wintry scene
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt working
Soaking the silk cocoons
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Hand spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Felt slippers
Felt hat making
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Drawing silk threads
Wool working or rope making?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
The pattern is progressing
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
A happy weaver
A fiddly job
Spinning
Wool spinning
Intricate work here.
Wool half spun
Hat moulds
Silk larva and the cocoon
A sheepskin collar and coat
Finished felt hats
Many threads being drawn into one
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk into skeins
spinning by hand
Intricate work
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving in progress
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