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