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