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