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