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