Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving tools in use
Drawing the silk threads
Intricate work here.
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving
The raw material
Teasing a thread of some sort
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Drawing silk into skeins
There is a thread of some sort there.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Silk cocoons
Close up of the spinning process
A happy weaver
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
Spinning by hand
Inserting a thread
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Yarns ready for weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Full length sheepskin coat
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
Inserting a coloured thread
The pattern is progressing
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving in progress
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Pressing the felt
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool half spun
A wool winder
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning
Knitting?
The pile is going down
Spinning
Teasing thread
Unravelling the threads
Rope making the hard way
Hat moulds
Keeping warm with the sheep
Intricate work
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning wool by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning
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