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