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