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