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