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