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