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