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