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