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