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