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