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