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