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