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