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