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