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