Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hat moulds
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Unwinding the silk strands
Inserting a thread
Weaving in progress
Dressed for the weather.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool half spun
Weaver at work
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving in progress
The raw material
Gathering something, but what?
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Wool spinning
Felt hat making
Wool spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk larva and the cocoon
A happy weaver
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Hand spinning
The sheep look neater!
Intricate work here.
Yarns ready for weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving tools in use
Spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
spinning by hand
Close up of the spinning process
wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning
Hat moulds
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Rope making the hard way
Starting a thread
Pressing the felt
Rope making by hand
The pattern is progressing
Balls of newly spun wool
Unravelling the threads
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving
Wool spinning
Weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Concentration!
A wool carder
A historical loom?
Knitting
Spinning
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