Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning and winding wool
All keeping warm in the cold.
Hand spinning
Spinning
A flock of sheep
Wool spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
Starting a thread
Silk cocoons
wool spinning
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool waiting spinning
Rope making
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Wool half spun
Knitting
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt hat making
Weaving in progress
A happy weaver
Full length sheepskin coat
The raw material
The pattern is progressing
A wintry scene
Felt slippers
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning by hand
Weaving
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
A fiddly job
Making a felt hat
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Keeping warm with the sheep
Intricate work
Drawing silk into skeins
Drawing silk threads
Weaving tools in use
Hat moulds
Rope making the hard way
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning
Hand spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Yarns ready for weaving
Unravelling the threads
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
Pressing the felt
Weaver at work
Close up of the spinning process
Soaking the silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
Hat moulds
Drawing the silk threads
A proper sheepskin coat!
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