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