Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
Inserting a thread
Felt working
Drawing silk threads
Silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
The pile is going down
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Finished felt hats
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaver at work
Soaking the silk cocoons
All keeping warm in the cold.
The raw material
Felt slippers
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Starting a thread
A wintry scene
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Close up of the spinning process
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing the silk threads
Teasing thread
Silk larva and the cocoon
Knitting
A flock of sheep
Teasing a thread of some sort
A sheepskin collar and coat
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving tools in use
The pattern is progressing
A happy weaver
There is a thread of some sort there.
spinning by hand
Spinning wool by hand
Felt slippers
Unravelling the threads
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Concentration on the job
Hand spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool half spun
A proper sheepskin coat!
Full length sheepskin coat
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There is someone inside that!
Spinning
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving in progress
Knitting?
Intricate work here.
Spinning
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