Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Inserting a thread
The raw material
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning
Wool half spun
Spinning
Shaping the hat
Gathering something, but what?
The pile is going down
Silk larva and the cocoon
Silk being drawn into yarn
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Starting a thread
Balls of newly spun wool
Felt working
A flock of sheep
Concentration on the job
Close up of the spinning process
Unwinding the silk strands
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving tools in use
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
Spinning
spinning by hand
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wool winder
Drawing silk threads
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving
Weaving
Intricate work
The pattern is progressing
A fiddly job
A happy weaver
Wool awaiting spinning
Concentration!
Wool spinning
Rope making by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Spinning wool by hand
A silk moth.
Rope making by hand
Felt slippers
Inserting a coloured thread
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hat moulds
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Rope making the hard way
Yarns ready for weaving
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Rope making
Spinning
Spinning and winding wool
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Drawing silk into skeins
A wintry scene
Teasing thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A sheepskin collar and coat
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Knitting
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
wool spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning the traditional way.
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