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