Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wool winder
A fiddly job
Starting a thread
Finished felt hats
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A wool carder
A lot of wool to be spun
The pile is going down
A sheepskin collar and coat
There is a thread of some sort there.
Concentration on the job
Spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
Balls of newly spun wool
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving in progress
A silk moth.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Rope making by hand
Felt working
Felt slippers
A happy weaver
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Inserting a thread
spinning by hand
A wintry scene
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving in progress
Concentration!
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving
The pattern is progressing
Silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
Unravelling the threads
Wool half spun
Intricate work
Spinning
Weaver at work
Wool waiting spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving
Hand spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt hat making
Dressed for the weather.
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk cocoons
Full length sheepskin coat
Hand spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Making a felt hat
Spinning
A historical loom?
Wool working or rope making?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning by hand
Teasing thread
Drawing the silk threads
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
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