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