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