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