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