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