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