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