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