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