Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Soaking the silk cocoons
Balls of newly spun wool
wool spinning
The pile is going down
Felt slippers
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Weaver at work
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk being drawn into yarn
Felt hat making
The raw material
Close up of the spinning process
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Concentration!
Shaping the hat
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Gathering something, but what?
Knitting?
Drawing the silk threads
spinning by hand
Intricate work here.
Wool half spun
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
Hat moulds
Spinning
A fiddly job
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
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