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