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