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