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