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