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