Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Full length sheepskin coat
A historical loom?
A wool winder
There is a thread of some sort there.
Making a felt hat
A happy weaver
wool spinning
Wool spinning
Silk cocoons
Spinning wool by hand
Starting a thread
Inserting a coloured thread
Hat moulds
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Spinning
Intricate work here.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaver at work
It looks a mess whatever it is.
spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Silk cocoons
Knitting
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Inserting a thread
A fiddly job
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool awaiting spinning
There is someone inside that!
Spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A wool carder
Wool spinning
Wool half spun
Spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Shaping the hat
Gathering something, but what?
Pressing the felt
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving in progress
Dressed for the weather.
Teasing thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Many threads being drawn into one
Balls of newly spun wool
A wintry scene
Knitting?
The sheep look neater!
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
Teasing a thread of some sort
The pile is going down
Keeping warm with the sheep
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Yarns ready for weaving
Rope making the hard way
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Close up of the spinning process
Hand spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Felt working
Felt hat making
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
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