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