Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
A flock of sheep
Wool spinning by hand
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A wool carder
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Shaping the hat
Felt hat making
The pattern is progressing
Spinning and winding wool
Knitting?
Drawing the silk threads
Keeping warm with the sheep
Unravelling the threads
Full length sheepskin coat
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Intricate work here.
Dressed for the weather.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool waiting spinning
Teasing thread
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Weaving
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Drawing silk threads
A lot of wool to be spun
A sheepskin collar and coat
wool spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving
Rope making
Weaving tools in use
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Weaver at work
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
Spinning
The raw material
A happy weaver
Inserting a thread
Hat moulds
Concentration on the job
spinning by hand
A fiddly job
Wool half spun
Wool spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool working or rope making?
Starting a thread
Competing for the woolliest coat.
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