Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Pressing the felt
Weaving
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning
Hat moulds
spinning by hand
Felt hat making
wool spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A flock of sheep
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Wool spinning by hand
Concentration!
A fiddly job
Wool half spun
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Rope making by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Knitting?
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning and winding wool
Felt slippers
Intricate work here.
Felt slippers
A wintry scene
Rope making
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
A historical loom?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Drawing silk into skeins
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving in progress
Starting a thread
A silk moth.
Hand spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Unravelling the threads
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hand spinning
Spinning
Teasing thread
Felt working
Weaving
Inserting a thread
The pattern is progressing
Wool spinning
Rope making the hard way
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