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