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