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