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