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