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