Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
The pattern is progressing
Felt hat making
Rope making the hard way
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Gathering something, but what?
A silk moth.
Yarns ready for weaving
Intricate work
A wool carder
Unwinding the silk strands
Close up of the spinning process
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Silk cocoons
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Finished felt hats
Felt slippers
Rope making by hand
Felt slippers
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning by hand
A wintry scene
Rope making
Spinning and winding wool
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning
A fiddly job
Starting a thread
A flock of sheep
Wool spinning
spinning by hand
A wool winder
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Hand spinning
Weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Teasing a thread of some sort
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Spinning
Hat moulds
There was a rope walk in the background here.
The raw material
Spinning
Pressing the felt
Inserting a thread
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