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