Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Yarns ready for weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The pattern is progressing
A happy weaver
A wool carder
Drawing the silk threads
Hand spinning
Weaver at work
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Weaving tools in use
Wool spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Shaping the hat
Wool spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Felt slippers
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Spinning
Felt working
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Concentration on the job
Full length sheepskin coat
Many threads being drawn into one
Pressing the felt
Rope making the hard way
Unravelling the threads
The sheep look neater!
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A historical loom?
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Silk being drawn into yarn
A fiddly job
Hand spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Felt hat making
A flock of sheep
Weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Knitting
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Knitting?
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