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