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