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