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