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