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