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