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