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