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