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