Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning and winding wool
Drawing silk into skeins
Finished felt hats
Felt hat making
A wool carder
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A lot of wool to be spun
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Shaping the hat
Felt slippers
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The pile is going down
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Unravelling the threads
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing thread
Spinning
Spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Unwinding the silk strands
Drawing the silk threads
The pattern is progressing
A happy weaver
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A proper sheepskin coat!
A wintry scene
wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Inserting a coloured thread
There is a thread of some sort there.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool waiting spinning
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