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