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