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