Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving tools in use
Knitting?
Full length sheepskin coat
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a thread
Wool waiting spinning
Wool half spun
Teasing thread
Hand spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Concentration on the job
Hand spinning
Hat moulds
Drawing silk into skeins
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt working
Yarns ready for weaving
A happy weaver
Pressing the felt
Wool awaiting spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning by hand
A historical loom?
Spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Starting a thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Close up of the spinning process
A silk moth.
The pile is going down
Weaving
Unwinding the silk strands
Felt hat making
Weaver at work
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hat moulds
Wool spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Knitting
Intricate work
Intricate work here.
Spinning
Unravelling the threads
Inserting a coloured thread
The raw material
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
The sheep look neater!
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Wool spinning
Felt slippers
Keeping warm with the sheep
wool spinning
Drawing silk threads
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Silk cocoons
Concentration!
A fiddly job
spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
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