Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Silk being drawn into yarn
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaving
A wintry scene
Weaving in progress
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Pressing the felt
Rope making by hand
A fiddly job
There is someone inside that!
Balls of newly spun wool
Unravelling the threads
wool spinning
Wool spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt working
All keeping warm in the cold.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
Wool half spun
Spinning by hand
Knitting?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The sheep look neater!
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning
A wool carder
Yarns ready for weaving
Intricate work
Inserting a thread
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Rope making by hand
Weaver at work
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk cocoons
A silk moth.
Felt slippers
Weaving
Wool spinning
Spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Wool working or rope making?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
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