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