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