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