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