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