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