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