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