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