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