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