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