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