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