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