Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving
The pile is going down
A wool carder
Weaving in progress
Shaping the hat
Wool spinning
Concentration!
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning
Spinning by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving
A wintry scene
A historical loom?
Silk larva and the cocoon
Unravelling the threads
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving tools in use
A silk moth.
Weaver at work
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool half spun
Felt slippers
Pressing the felt
The raw material
Starting a thread
Intricate work here.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
wool spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hand spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Felt slippers
Silk cocoons
Many threads being drawn into one
Spinning and winding wool
Teasing thread
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Knitting?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning
Hat moulds
All keeping warm in the cold.
Close up of the spinning process
Wool waiting spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
spinning by hand
A wool winder
Hat moulds
Intricate work
A fiddly job
Inserting a coloured thread
Rope making
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The pattern is progressing
Teasing a thread of some sort
Unwinding the silk strands
Yarns ready for weaving
Making a felt hat
A lot of wool to be spun
Soaking the silk cocoons
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