Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Knitting?
Drawing the silk threads
A flock of sheep
Drawing silk threads
Weaving in progress
Weaving in progress
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
wool spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning and winding wool
spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Knitting
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Pressing the felt
Spinning
A happy weaver
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Wool spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A sheepskin collar and coat
A fiddly job
Spinning
There is someone inside that!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Silk cocoons
Spinning
Felt hat making
Yarns ready for weaving
There is a thread of some sort there.
Finished felt hats
Soaking the silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Drawing silk into skeins
A wintry scene
Rope making
Many threads being drawn into one
Intricate work
Spinning
Teasing thread
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Inserting a thread
Inserting a coloured thread
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt slippers
Silk larva and the cocoon
A silk moth.
Hand spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Weaver at work
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
Gathering something, but what?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Making a felt hat
Weaving
Wool spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
Hat moulds
Silk cocoons
Felt slippers
Starting a thread
Rope making by hand
A wool winder
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
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