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