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