Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Concentration!
Wool spinning by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Intricate work
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
Rope making
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving
Concentration on the job
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaver at work
Spinning
Close up of the spinning process
A fiddly job
Felt slippers
There was a rope walk in the background here.
The pile is going down
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving
Inserting a thread
Unwinding the silk strands
Yarns ready for weaving
Hat moulds
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
The pattern is progressing
Drawing the silk threads
A historical loom?
Inserting a coloured thread
Silk cocoons
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Starting a thread
A silk moth.
Dressed for the weather.
Teasing thread
Knitting
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
There is a thread of some sort there.
Silk cocoons
Spinning
Wool spinning
Drawing silk threads
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