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