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