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