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