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