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