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