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