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