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