Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Close up of the spinning process
Felt slippers
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Concentration!
Wool awaiting spinning
Pressing the felt
Rope making
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Felt working
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
Silk being drawn into yarn
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Wool spinning by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaving in progress
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaving
Silk cocoons
A happy weaver
Silk larva and the cocoon
Felt hat making
Hat moulds
A historical loom?
Balls of newly spun wool
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool spinning
A wool carder
Gathering something, but what?
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A wintry scene
Finished felt hats
Spinning
Starting a thread
wool spinning
Rope making by hand
Concentration on the job
Dressed for the weather.
A silk moth.
The pattern is progressing
Felt slippers
He looks warmer than the photographer.
The sheep look neater!
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