Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
A fiddly job
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Many threads being drawn into one
Pressing the felt
Unwinding the silk strands
Hand spinning
Spinning
Drawing silk threads
Inserting a coloured thread
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Rope making by hand
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Teasing thread
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning and winding wool
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Weaving
Wool half spun
Silk larva and the cocoon
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning by hand
Finished felt hats
Balls of newly spun wool
Intricate work
Spinning
A wintry scene
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Knitting?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Starting a thread
Dressed for the weather.
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