Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Concentration!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Hat moulds
Finished felt hats
Weaving tools in use
Balls of newly spun wool
Intricate work here.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Knitting
Keeping warm with the sheep
Rope making by hand
Pressing the felt
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Spinning wool by hand
A wintry scene
Drawing the silk threads
The raw material
A wool carder
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Making a felt hat
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool waiting spinning
A silk moth.
The sheep look neater!
Concentration on the job
Knitting?
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving
Gathering something, but what?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt slippers
Shaping the hat
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
spinning by hand
Hat moulds
There is a thread of some sort there.
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Unwinding the silk strands
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A historical loom?
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning
Felt working
The pile is going down
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