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