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