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