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