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