Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wool carder
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wool winder
Spinning and winding wool
Shaping the hat
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Balls of newly spun wool
Full length sheepskin coat
Hat moulds
Weaving
Rope making
The sheep look neater!
Silk cocoons
Yarns ready for weaving
Pressing the felt
Hat moulds
Weaving in progress
A silk moth.
A happy weaver
A fiddly job
Spinning by hand
Keeping warm with the sheep
spinning by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Intricate work here.
Weaving
Concentration on the job
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Teasing thread
Making a felt hat
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Felt hat making
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A historical loom?
Wool working or rope making?
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Spinning
wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Finished felt hats
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Wool half spun
Felt working
Weaver at work
There is someone inside that!
Yarns ready for weaving
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk being drawn into yarn
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning
Weaving tools in use
Starting a thread
Rope making by hand
Intricate work
Unravelling the threads
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Spinning
The raw material
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