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