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