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