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