Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
Felt hat making
Spinning by hand
A silk moth.
Weaving tools in use
Concentration!
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
The raw material
Finished felt hats
The sheep look neater!
Felt slippers
Weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning
Close up of the spinning process
There is a thread of some sort there.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving
Spinning and winding wool
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Full length sheepskin coat
Pressing the felt
A happy weaver
Unwinding the silk strands
A lot of wool to be spun
A flock of sheep
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wool carder
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning wool by hand
Gathering something, but what?
Inserting a coloured thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A historical loom?
Shaping the hat
A fiddly job
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Felt working
A wool winder
Concentration on the job
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Knitting?
Keeping warm with the sheep
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning by hand
Hat moulds
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Intricate work
Weaving in progress
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
Intricate work here.
There is someone inside that!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Rope making the hard way
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