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