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