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