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