Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaver at work
Drawing the silk threads
Felt working
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Unwinding the silk strands
Spinning
Teasing thread
Weaving in progress
Felt slippers
Balls of newly spun wool
A fiddly job
Many threads being drawn into one
Yarns ready for weaving
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Finished felt hats
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Felt slippers
Wool spinning
A happy weaver
Weaving
A flock of sheep
Weaving
wool spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Intricate work here.
Silk being drawn into yarn
The pile is going down
A lot of wool to be spun
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool awaiting spinning
Rope making the hard way
A historical loom?
A silk moth.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Knitting
Wool waiting spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hat moulds
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Intricate work
Spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
There is someone inside that!
Inserting a thread
Wool half spun
Wool working or rope making?
Making a felt hat
Dressed for the weather.
Yarns ready for weaving
A wool winder
A wintry scene
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