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