Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Close up of the spinning process
The raw material
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Knitting?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wool carder
Felt working
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The pile is going down
There is someone inside that!
Teasing thread
Felt hat making
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Spinning by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Silk larva and the cocoon
A fiddly job
Silk cocoons
Intricate work
Intricate work here.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A silk moth.
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Full length sheepskin coat
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Drawing silk threads
Felt slippers
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Concentration!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
Wool half spun
Inserting a thread
Wool spinning
A wintry scene
wool spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
Weaving
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning
Wool working or rope making?
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