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