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