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