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