Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool half spun
Spinning
Hand spinning
Drawing the silk threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Weaving
A silk moth.
Many threads being drawn into one
Hat moulds
Drawing silk threads
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning
Hand spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Knitting
Felt working
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns ready for weaving
Pressing the felt
Finished felt hats
There is a thread of some sort there.
Rope making
Rope making the hard way
Wool awaiting spinning
Shaping the hat
Spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
Intricate work
Wool waiting spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Inserting a thread
Weaving
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
Knitting?
Unravelling the threads
Hand spinning
Starting a thread
Intricate work here.
Gathering something, but what?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Teasing thread
Silk cocoons
Balls of newly spun wool
Silk larva and the cocoon
Rope making by hand
Weaving tools in use
There is someone inside that!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hat moulds
Weaver at work
Spinning
The raw material
A wool winder
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
A lot of wool to be spun
Keeping warm with the sheep
spinning by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
A happy weaver
wool spinning
Spinning
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
The sheep look neater!
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
Weaving
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