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