Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving tools in use
Concentration!
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving
Felt slippers
Hat moulds
Felt hat making
Wool half spun
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
Rope making the hard way
Keeping warm with the sheep
Starting a thread
A fiddly job
Concentration on the job
Weaving
A wintry scene
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
The pattern is progressing
Knitting
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Intricate work here.
A wool carder
Silk larva and the cocoon
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Finished felt hats
Silk cocoons
Unravelling the threads
Balls of newly spun wool
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing the silk threads
Knitting?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Intricate work
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Drawing silk threads
Many threads being drawn into one
Inserting a thread
Rope making by hand
Making a felt hat
The raw material
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
There is someone inside that!
Weaving
Spinning wool by hand
Rope making by hand
Felt working
A silk moth.
Spinning
Spinning by hand
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making
A lot of wool to be spun
Spinning and winding wool
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Dressed for the weather.
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