Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Full length sheepskin coat
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A happy weaver
Finished felt hats
The raw material
A wool carder
Pressing the felt
Spinning and winding wool
Wool spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
spinning by hand
Spinning
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Rope making the hard way
Concentration!
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaver at work
Keeping warm with the sheep
A flock of sheep
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning by hand
Spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hat moulds
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Soaking the silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Balls of newly spun wool
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