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