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