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