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