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