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