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