Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt slippers
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
spinning by hand
Teasing a thread of some sort
Felt working
Wool spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
A wool carder
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Rope making by hand
Gathering something, but what?
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning wool by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
A fiddly job
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
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