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