Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt slippers
There is someone inside that!
Knitting
Unwinding the silk strands
Spinning wool by hand
A wool winder
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Many threads being drawn into one
Finished felt hats
Yarns ready for weaving
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Knitting?
A historical loom?
Intricate work here.
A silk moth.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving tools in use
The pile is going down
Dressed for the weather.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaving in progress
A wintry scene
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Rope making the hard way
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hat moulds
Silk cocoons
Felt working
Spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
wool spinning
Intricate work
Inserting a thread
There is a thread of some sort there.
Concentration!
Drawing silk threads
Full length sheepskin coat
Hand spinning
Close up of the spinning process
The raw material
Spinning
A wool carder
Spinning by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
A happy weaver
The sheep look neater!
Pressing the felt
Weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
spinning by hand
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
Felt hat making
Rope making by hand
Making a felt hat
Wool spinning by hand
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