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