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