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