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