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