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