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