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