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