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