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