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