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