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