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