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