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