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