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