Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt working
Spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Felt slippers
Intricate work here.
Rope making
Felt hat making
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Intricate work
Wool awaiting spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Unravelling the threads
Concentration!
Inserting a thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
There is someone inside that!
Weaving
Knitting?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
A historical loom?
Silk larva and the cocoon
Yarns ready for weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt slippers
Teasing a thread of some sort
A lot of wool to be spun
A proper sheepskin coat!
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The pile is going down
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A flock of sheep
There is a thread of some sort there.
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Spinning wool by hand
Teasing thread
Wool waiting spinning
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
wool spinning
Hand spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Finished felt hats
Yarns ready for weaving
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