Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
spinning by hand
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving tools in use
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Unravelling the threads
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning
Weaving
Wool half spun
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
The pile is going down
Wool spinning by hand
Felt hat making
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
Teasing a thread of some sort
Silk larva and the cocoon
A flock of sheep
Rope making by hand
Close up of the spinning process
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A fiddly job
There is a thread of some sort there.
Intricate work
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning
A happy weaver
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving
There is someone inside that!
A sheepskin collar and coat
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
Wool working or rope making?
Gathering something, but what?
Wool awaiting spinning
Hat moulds
Making a felt hat
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
A historical loom?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Silk cocoons
Concentration on the job
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