Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Intricate work
Wool half spun
Knitting
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Pressing the felt
Inserting a coloured thread
Keeping warm with the sheep
Starting a thread
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Rope making by hand
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
A silk moth.
Silk cocoons
There is a thread of some sort there.
Dressed for the weather.
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Unwinding the silk strands
Silk larva and the cocoon
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Knitting?
Spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
A wintry scene
Teasing thread
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool awaiting spinning
Concentration!
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning
Hand spinning
Weaving
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Balls of newly spun wool
All keeping warm in the cold.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Drawing the silk threads
Drawing silk threads
Spinning wool by hand
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving tools in use
spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A lot of wool to be spun
Spinning
Hand spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Concentration on the job
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving in progress
A historical loom?
Intricate work here.
Wool waiting spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Wool working or rope making?
A wool carder
Soaking the silk cocoons
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