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