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