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