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