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