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