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