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