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