Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Making a felt hat
The pattern is progressing
Drawing silk into skeins
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
A happy weaver
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Pressing the felt
Wool waiting spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Weaving
Concentration on the job
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Rope making the hard way
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Shaping the hat
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning by hand
Spinning
Starting a thread
A lot of wool to be spun
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Finished felt hats
Weaving tools in use
Knitting?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Drawing silk threads
A silk moth.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Yarns ready for weaving
There is a thread of some sort there.
Unravelling the threads
Felt hat making
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Hand spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning
Hand spinning
A wool winder
Felt working
Spinning and winding wool
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
A wool carder
Wool half spun
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Weaver at work
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
A historical loom?
Weaving in progress
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