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