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