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