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