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