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