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