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