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