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