Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
Felt slippers
Wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
The raw material
Intricate work
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
Starting a thread
Spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt hat making
Soaking the silk cocoons
Unwinding the silk strands
Spinning by hand
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Gathering something, but what?
A wool carder
Spinning wool by hand
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Close up of the spinning process
Concentration!
Wool spinning by hand
Teasing a thread of some sort
Drawing silk threads
Silk being drawn into yarn
Knitting?
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Inserting a coloured thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
All keeping warm in the cold.
Hat moulds
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A happy weaver
wool spinning
A historical loom?
Making a felt hat
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Concentration on the job
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt working
Weaving
Wool spinning
A fiddly job
Balls of newly spun wool
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A wintry scene
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
Wool half spun
Pressing the felt
Silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
Finished felt hats
Silk cocoons
Spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Rope making
The pile is going down
Keeping warm with the sheep
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