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