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