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