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