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