Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A sheepskin collar and coat
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Unravelling the threads
Weaving
Spinning
Hand spinning
Starting a thread
The pattern is progressing
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaving
Wool spinning
Knitting
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning by hand
Making a felt hat
A wool winder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The raw material
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Gathering something, but what?
Wool awaiting spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning wool by hand
Concentration on the job
Silk cocoons
Weaving tools in use
A historical loom?
Drawing silk threads
Weaving in progress
Pressing the felt
Concentration!
Rope making the hard way
All keeping warm in the cold.
Inserting a thread
Silk larva and the cocoon
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Yarns ready for weaving
Knitting?
A wintry scene
Spinning by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Felt slippers
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool half spun
There is a thread of some sort there.
Drawing the silk threads
A flock of sheep
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
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