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