Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool half spun
Weaving tools in use
Weaving in progress
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Knitting
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Finished felt hats
Felt slippers
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hat moulds
Starting a thread
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Knitting?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Unwinding the silk strands
Hand spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Concentration!
Wool working or rope making?
Wool waiting spinning
Rope making by hand
Spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk cocoons
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Yarns ready for weaving
The pattern is progressing
The pile is going down
Many threads being drawn into one
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
Soaking the silk cocoons
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Weaving in progress
wool spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
A fiddly job
Drawing the silk threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Teasing thread
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Gathering something, but what?
A wool winder
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A historical loom?
Rope making by hand
Making a felt hat
Balls of newly spun wool
spinning by hand
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