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