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