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