Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
Felt slippers
Spinning
Teasing thread
Concentration!
Pressing the felt
Hat moulds
Balls of newly spun wool
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Yarns ready for weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning
A wintry scene
Knitting?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Many threads being drawn into one
Starting a thread
Felt hat making
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
The pattern is progressing
The raw material
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A silk moth.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool waiting spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Wool spinning by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Making a felt hat
Wool spinning
There is someone inside that!
Spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
A historical loom?
Drawing silk threads
Silk larva and the cocoon
Drawing silk into skeins
Full length sheepskin coat
A wool carder
wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A flock of sheep
Silk cocoons
Wool half spun
Knitting
Finished felt hats
A happy weaver
There is a thread of some sort there.
A wool winder
Soaking the silk cocoons
spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
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