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