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