Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A historical loom?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Drawing silk into skeins
The pattern is progressing
Keeping warm with the sheep
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
The pile is going down
Spinning by hand
A fiddly job
spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
Hat moulds
Finished felt hats
Wool spinning
Shaping the hat
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool working or rope making?
Weaving
Making a felt hat
Knitting?
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning
Spinning
Felt slippers
A wool winder
Yarns ready for weaving
A silk moth.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making by hand
Pressing the felt
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Unravelling the threads
Teasing thread
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
Silk cocoons
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaving in progress
Concentration on the job
A flock of sheep
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning wool by hand
The sheep look neater!
Rope making by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning
Felt hat making
Concentration!
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wintry scene
Rope making
Wool spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Inserting a coloured thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving tools in use
Gathering something, but what?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Unwinding the silk strands
Drawing silk threads
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning
Spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning by hand
wool spinning
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
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