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