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