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