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