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