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