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