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