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