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