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