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