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