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