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