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