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