Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
Drawing the silk threads
A happy weaver
Spinning
Drawing silk threads
Weaver at work
Weaving tools in use
Pressing the felt
The pattern is progressing
The pile is going down
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Teasing thread
The sheep look neater!
A wool carder
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Dressed for the weather.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Concentration!
Wool waiting spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Yarns ready for weaving
A wool winder
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making the hard way
A fiddly job
Many threads being drawn into one
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning by hand
Weaving
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Starting a thread
Concentration on the job
Silk cocoons
The raw material
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Intricate work here.
Intricate work
Felt slippers
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Close up of the spinning process
Felt working
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Full length sheepskin coat
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making
Wool awaiting spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool half spun
Knitting?
Soaking the silk cocoons
wool spinning
A historical loom?
Spinning wool by hand
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making by hand
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