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