Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt hat making
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Drawing silk threads
Weaving in progress
There is someone inside that!
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaving
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Dressed for the weather.
Rope making
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Teasing thread
A wool carder
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Starting a thread
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Inserting a thread
Spinning and winding wool
Many threads being drawn into one
A historical loom?
wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Felt slippers
Finished felt hats
Spinning
Weaving
Unravelling the threads
Concentration on the job
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Felt slippers
The sheep look neater!
Drawing the silk threads
Intricate work here.
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving
Pressing the felt
Wool working or rope making?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A fiddly job
Weaving tools in use
Hat moulds
Silk cocoons
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
The raw material
Spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Close up of the spinning process
Wool half spun
Shaping the hat
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Hat moulds
Soaking the silk cocoons
Knitting
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning by hand
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