Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A fiddly job
Drawing silk threads
Pressing the felt
wool spinning
Wool spinning by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A historical loom?
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving
Unwinding the silk strands
The raw material
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning and winding wool
A happy weaver
Teasing thread
Silk being drawn into yarn
Soaking the silk cocoons
Shaping the hat
Making a felt hat
Hat moulds
Wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
Felt working
Felt slippers
Concentration!
Close up of the spinning process
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt slippers
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Intricate work
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving tools in use
Teasing a thread of some sort
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Silk cocoons
Spinning
Rope making
A flock of sheep
Rope making by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk cocoons
Wool working or rope making?
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
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