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