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