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