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