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