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