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