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