Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wool carder
Hat moulds
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning
Felt working
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
wool spinning
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A silk moth.
Pressing the felt
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A happy weaver
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Rope making the hard way
Teasing thread
Concentration!
Hat moulds
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving in progress
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A fiddly job
Knitting?
Spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Making a felt hat
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Yarns ready for weaving
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaver at work
Silk larva and the cocoon
Felt slippers
A historical loom?
spinning by hand
Wool half spun
Silk being drawn into yarn
Full length sheepskin coat
A wintry scene
Wool spinning
Weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Rope making
Close up of the spinning process
There is someone inside that!
Wool spinning by hand
Unravelling the threads
Weaving in progress
Starting a thread
Spinning wool by hand
Wool spinning
Intricate work
There is a thread of some sort there.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Drawing the silk threads
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