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