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