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