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