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