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