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