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