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