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