Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a thread
Wool spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving in progress
The sheep look neater!
There is someone inside that!
Spinning
The raw material
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning and winding wool
Spinning
spinning by hand
Spinning
Shaping the hat
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Weaving
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Knitting
Weaver at work
A wool carder
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
Felt hat making
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
A flock of sheep
Starting a thread
Drawing silk into skeins
Gathering something, but what?
Rope making the hard way
wool spinning
Hat moulds
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Drawing the silk threads
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving in progress
Rope making
Felt slippers
Felt slippers
Making a felt hat
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