Time Travel
I went back to 1867 yesterday, just in time for sheep-shearing.* ...The sheep were docile and cooperative as the clippers gradually removed their thick woolen burden.
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At the other end of the village, a woman worked at washing the fleece (a job more likely done by men in 1867).
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Before carding, the washed wool was placed outdoors to dry.
Clean, dry, and gently twisted into coarse strands of about 2" diameter, the first shearing harvest was already being spun into woolen thread. It will be woven into cloth for clothing and blankets for the winter.
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Here's looking at ewe!
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* Upper Canada Village is a living history park in eastern Ontario, created from collected buildings and artifacts that would have been flooded when the St. Lawrence Seaway was built.
19 comments:
Wow.... That looks like it was rather a fun experience!!! What a neat skill to have, to raise animals that will provide one with clothes, without killing the animals, of course. And to have the skill to create cloth & clothes from the animal's fur. A skill to be held onto, that's for sure.
Lest anyone think that I, the Wizened Wizard, have such skills, I just added a note in the post. All of these pictures were taken on a wonderful day trip to Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg, Ontario.
That has to be hard work. Still I bet their hands are nice and soft from the lanolin. As always, great pics!
I've heard that Sheep Shearers have nice, soft hands because somehow lanolin is a component in the raw wool.
That's all I've got...
Cool post, Wizend! And that last photo is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing. Cool pix as usual.
I need to go visit places like this...
its fun to go back in time!
i've carded and spun wool before.
not that easy!
i enjoy going to places like that..
Love to go back in time and marvel. Thanks for sharing those with us.
LOL I knew it wasn't you doing the shearing & such, but I meant that those that DO have skills of that nature should be learned from. I wish I had that skill.
that looks like fun. i once tried weaving with sheep's wool. i made something or other...can't remember what it was now.
just stopping by to say hello and wish you a wonderful day and evening.
did they have the internet back then? ;)
That just seems like a whole lot of work. Kinda like fixing my typos in this comment has been...
But, I don't think they had much else to worry about as long as they got the food on the table and the clothes made.
There is a lovely place here on Long Island called Old Bethpage Village. It parallels Upper Canada Village! Its so sweet because they only serve sasperilla and fresh homemade donuts at the food stand. :)
I am always a bit too excited about these living history parks.
I mean, I think I had kids, just so I could take them to such places and pretend *it's all for them.*
WoW! A Living History Park! I wish we had one because from what I see and read here, it's wonderful. too Cool! Thanks for sharing!
We have some huge sheep farms here. The animals are always friendly and seem content but, why not? All they have to go through is a hair cut now and then. If I was a farmer. I'd raise sheep.
That is tooo cool!
I love the living history villages. There's a neat Shaker village called Pleasant Hill in Kentucky, where you can even spend the night and have a Shaker meal, listen to Shaker singing, watcher the wavign and candle-making, etc.
I love history villages. I went to two, so far. The one that CS mentioned above and the Acadian Village.
I love that picture. EWE take beautiful photographs and I hope to someday to be able to have 1/2 your talent. Keep the pictures coming and the great post.
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