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