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