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