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