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