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