Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Hat moulds
Dressed for the weather.
Unwinding the silk strands
Competing for the woolliest coat.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
Felt working
Felt slippers
Silk being drawn into yarn
A silk moth.
Rope making
Intricate work
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Starting a thread
Spinning
Weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
There is a thread of some sort there.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt hat making
Spinning by hand
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
A happy weaver
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making the hard way
Wool waiting spinning
Knitting
Soaking the silk cocoons
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Pressing the felt
Concentration on the job
The raw material
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Gathering something, but what?
The pattern is progressing
Finished felt hats
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
Hat moulds
Intricate work here.
Wool spinning by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing the silk threads
Wool spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Weaver at work
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Spinning wool by hand
wool spinning
A fiddly job
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Shaping the hat
Unravelling the threads
Weaving tools in use
Close up of the spinning process
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Making a felt hat
Weaving
Weaving in progress
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk cocoons
A proper sheepskin coat!
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Rope making by hand
There is someone inside that!
A wool carder
Inserting a thread
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