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