Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool awaiting spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt slippers
Concentration!
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
spinning by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hand spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Starting a thread
Spinning and winding wool
Felt slippers
Close up of the spinning process
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Inserting a coloured thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving in progress
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Spinning
Finished felt hats
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaving
Intricate work here.
The pattern is progressing
Unwinding the silk strands
Knitting
Weaver at work
Weaving tools in use
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Weaving in progress
Yarns ready for weaving
A flock of sheep
Shaping the hat
There is someone inside that!
Teasing a thread of some sort
A wintry scene
Soaking the silk cocoons
Knitting?
The raw material
Inserting a thread
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wool carder
wool spinning
Intricate work
He looks warmer than the photographer.
There is a thread of some sort there.
A proper sheepskin coat!
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