Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Felt slippers
Weaver at work
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
Teasing a thread of some sort
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt hat making
Finished felt hats
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Weaving
Weaving
A sheepskin collar and coat
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A lot of wool to be spun
A flock of sheep
Pressing the felt
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool half spun
Drawing silk into skeins
Felt working
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