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