Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Intricate work here.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Weaving
The pile is going down
Soaking the silk cocoons
The pattern is progressing
A proper sheepskin coat!
A happy weaver
Felt hat making
Intricate work
Wool half spun
Felt slippers
There is someone inside that!
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning
A wool carder
Keeping warm with the sheep
A fiddly job
wool spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Dressed for the weather.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Spinning by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Silk larva and the cocoon
Balls of newly spun wool
Many threads being drawn into one
Knitting?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt working
Any ideas what he is doing here?
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