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