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