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