Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a coloured thread
Drawing silk threads
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making the hard way
Felt hat making
Close up of the spinning process
Wool waiting spinning
Hat moulds
Making a felt hat
Spinning and winding wool
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A proper sheepskin coat!
A historical loom?
Shaping the hat
Many threads being drawn into one
Concentration on the job
A sheepskin collar and coat
The pattern is progressing
Finished felt hats
Weaving tools in use
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Intricate work here.
There is someone inside that!
Wool spinning
Felt working
Spinning
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Wool working or rope making?
Concentration!
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning by hand
Dressed for the weather.
Intricate work
wool spinning
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
A fiddly job
Teasing thread
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Gathering something, but what?
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning wool by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool awaiting spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wool carder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
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