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