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