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