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