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