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