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