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