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