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