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