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