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