Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Pressing the felt
Knitting?
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
A wintry scene
Hat moulds
All keeping warm in the cold.
A happy weaver
Hand spinning
Concentration!
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
Weaving in progress
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Starting a thread
Balls of newly spun wool
spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Making a felt hat
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Drawing silk threads
The pattern is progressing
Felt slippers
Weaving
Rope making
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Felt working
Concentration on the job
Hand spinning
Inserting a thread
Weaving
There is someone inside that!
A sheepskin collar and coat
Rope making by hand
A wool winder
A historical loom?
A wool carder
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving tools in use
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Unwinding the silk strands
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A lot of wool to be spun
wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
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