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