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