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