Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A happy weaver
Intricate work
Felt working
Rope making by hand
Teasing thread
Weaving in progress
spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk larva and the cocoon
Yarns ready for weaving
Hat moulds
Soaking the silk cocoons
Soaking the silk cocoons
The raw material
Finished felt hats
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning by hand
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool spinning by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving tools in use
A silk moth.
Making a felt hat
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Rope making
Shaping the hat
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
wool spinning
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Wool spinning
Drawing the silk threads
Wool spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Concentration on the job
Weaving
Spinning
A fiddly job
A wool winder
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk threads
Felt hat making
Felt slippers
Weaver at work
There is a thread of some sort there.
Unravelling the threads
Intricate work here.
Concentration!
It looks a mess whatever it is.
The pile is going down
Inserting a thread
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning
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