Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
wool spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool half spun
Drawing silk threads
Weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Rope making by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A wool winder
Knitting
Dressed for the weather.
A silk moth.
Felt slippers
Drawing silk into skeins
Unravelling the threads
Weaving tools in use
Rope making
Gathering something, but what?
Intricate work here.
Close up of the spinning process
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Hat moulds
A happy weaver
A historical loom?
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Spinning
Concentration!
Making a felt hat
Rope making by hand
A wintry scene
Weaving
Intricate work
A wool carder
Inserting a thread
Spinning wool by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt slippers
The raw material
The pile is going down
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool waiting spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Felt working
Silk cocoons
Starting a thread
Spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Inserting a coloured thread
Pressing the felt
Concentration on the job
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool working or rope making?
Silk cocoons
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A fiddly job
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool spinning
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
The sheep look neater!
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