Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool awaiting spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning
A historical loom?
Starting a thread
Hat moulds
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning
Weaving
Felt slippers
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Felt hat making
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A happy weaver
Teasing thread
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing a thread of some sort
A wintry scene
Spinning
Weaving in progress
wool spinning
A wool carder
Unravelling the threads
All keeping warm in the cold.
The raw material
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Gathering something, but what?
The pattern is progressing
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Full length sheepskin coat
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk cocoons
Making a felt hat
Keeping warm with the sheep
Intricate work
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning wool by hand
Rope making
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Hand spinning
Spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
The pile is going down
Rope making by hand
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
Spinning
Hand spinning
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