Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Drawing the silk threads
He looks warmer than the photographer.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a coloured thread
Gathering something, but what?
spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Spinning
Unravelling the threads
Close up of the spinning process
Wool waiting spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A sheepskin collar and coat
The sheep look neater!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Teasing a thread of some sort
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
The raw material
Weaving
wool spinning
A wool carder
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Felt hat making
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving
A historical loom?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning wool by hand
The pattern is progressing
Rope making by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
Making a felt hat
Spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Hat moulds
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Concentration!
Starting a thread
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
Knitting
A silk moth.
Full length sheepskin coat
Pressing the felt
The pile is going down
Shaping the hat
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