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