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