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