Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Rope making by hand
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool spinning
Knitting
Drawing silk into skeins
Keeping warm with the sheep
Full length sheepskin coat
The sheep look neater!
Soaking the silk cocoons
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Close up of the spinning process
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning the traditional way.
spinning by hand
Drawing the silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool working or rope making?
Hand spinning
Weaving
Weaving in progress
A wintry scene
Concentration on the job
The pile is going down
Spinning by hand
A historical loom?
Felt working
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt hat making
Yarns ready for weaving
Intricate work here.
A flock of sheep
There is a thread of some sort there.
Knitting?
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Dressed for the weather.
A fiddly job
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Unwinding the silk strands
Starting a thread
Gathering something, but what?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Hat moulds
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Rope making the hard way
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Shaping the hat
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Soaking the silk cocoons
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Intricate work
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Teasing thread
Weaving tools in use
There is someone inside that!
Finished felt hats
Hat moulds
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