Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
Shaping the hat
Silk larva and the cocoon
Unwinding the silk strands
A fiddly job
The pile is going down
Gathering something, but what?
Close up of the spinning process
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Rope making by hand
A flock of sheep
Drawing silk into skeins
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Weaver at work
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
Intricate work here.
Pressing the felt
Weaving
Knitting
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Rope making by hand
A happy weaver
A sheepskin collar and coat
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Drawing silk threads
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Soaking the silk cocoons
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Knitting?
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning wool by hand
Felt slippers
Felt slippers
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hat moulds
Wool half spun
A historical loom?
wool spinning
Silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Spinning and winding wool
Yarns ready for weaving
The pattern is progressing
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