Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning
A wool carder
Teasing thread
Hat moulds
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt slippers
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Inserting a coloured thread
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Gathering something, but what?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Intricate work here.
A flock of sheep
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
The pile is going down
Intricate work
Concentration!
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk being drawn into yarn
There is someone inside that!
Dressed for the weather.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A silk moth.
Knitting
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Yarns ready for weaving
Rope making the hard way
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wool winder
Unravelling the threads
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving
Felt working
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