Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A wool carder
There is a thread of some sort there.
Intricate work here.
A wintry scene
It looks a mess whatever it is.
There is someone inside that!
Concentration!
Yarns ready for weaving
wool spinning
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
Spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
All keeping warm in the cold.
Making a felt hat
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Unwinding the silk strands
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Balls of newly spun wool
Full length sheepskin coat
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A wool winder
Weaving
Spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
A flock of sheep
Pressing the felt
Hat moulds
Wool waiting spinning
Rope making
Wool spinning
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Knitting?
Silk being drawn into yarn
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Drawing the silk threads
Wool half spun
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
spinning by hand
Weaving
The sheep look neater!
Knitting
Rope making by hand
Rope making the hard way
Weaving tools in use
Silk cocoons
A silk moth.
Wool awaiting spinning
Felt slippers
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Felt slippers
Intricate work
Spinning wool by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
The pattern is progressing
A historical loom?
Shaping the hat
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