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