Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Knitting?
Wool spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
Rope making by hand
Hat moulds
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Hat moulds
All keeping warm in the cold.
Yarns ready for weaving
Full length sheepskin coat
Soaking the silk cocoons
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
Keeping warm with the sheep
The raw material
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaver at work
Finished felt hats
wool spinning
Shaping the hat
Drawing silk into skeins
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
Close up of the spinning process
Yarns ready for weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Spinning
Knitting
Silk being drawn into yarn
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Teasing thread
Hand spinning
Spinning
spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool working or rope making?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Weaving
Hand spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Felt hat making
Spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A wool carder
Making a felt hat
Unwinding the silk strands
A fiddly job
Spinning by hand
A silk moth.
Concentration on the job
Many threads being drawn into one
Dressed for the weather.
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