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