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