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