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