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