Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Drawing the silk threads
The sheep look neater!
Silk cocoons
Rope making
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
The pattern is progressing
Spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
Weaving tools in use
Intricate work
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Dressed for the weather.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning
Weaving
Making a felt hat
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Concentration!
Pressing the felt
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Close up of the spinning process
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Felt working
Drawing silk threads
Shaping the hat
A flock of sheep
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Spinning
Silk cocoons
Gathering something, but what?
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool half spun
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning by hand
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Intricate work here.
Yarns ready for weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making by hand
Felt slippers
A wool winder
Knitting
Wool working or rope making?
Teasing thread
Balls of newly spun wool
A proper sheepskin coat!
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Unravelling the threads
Felt hat making
Wool waiting spinning
Finished felt hats
Starting a thread
The raw material
Drawing silk into skeins
Hat moulds
Felt slippers
spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaver at work
A wool carder
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Full length sheepskin coat
There is someone inside that!
Inserting a thread
Spinning wool by hand
The pile is going down
A happy weaver
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