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