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