Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt working
Weaving tools in use
Yarns ready for weaving
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
wool spinning
The raw material
Hat moulds
Competing for the woolliest coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Hand spinning
A wintry scene
Silk cocoons
A silk moth.
Teasing thread
Silk being drawn into yarn
A flock of sheep
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Knitting
Spinning by hand
Inserting a thread
Rope making
Intricate work
Weaving in progress
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
There is someone inside that!
The sheep look neater!
The pattern is progressing
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Concentration!
Hat moulds
Knitting?
Wool half spun
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning
Drawing silk threads
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Concentration on the job
Spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk larva and the cocoon
Teasing a thread of some sort
A happy weaver
Wool spinning
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt hat making
Intricate work here.
Finished felt hats
Silk cocoons
The pile is going down
Shaping the hat
Spinning wool by hand
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaver at work
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving in progress
A wool carder
Starting a thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Weaving
Rope making by hand
Many threads being drawn into one
He looks warmer than the photographer.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Unravelling the threads
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