Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A happy weaver
Weaver at work
A wool carder
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
The pile is going down
The sheep look neater!
Rope making by hand
wool spinning
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Shaping the hat
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
Making a felt hat
A silk moth.
Finished felt hats
Inserting a thread
Pressing the felt
Spinning
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Many threads being drawn into one
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Rope making by hand
Hat moulds
Weaving in progress
A fiddly job
Weaving
Unravelling the threads
Spinning by hand
Weaving tools in use
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Drawing silk into skeins
Hat moulds
Wool half spun
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Gathering something, but what?
A historical loom?
A wool winder
Felt working
Concentration!
A wintry scene
Concentration on the job
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Teasing thread
Full length sheepskin coat
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool working or rope making?
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Unwinding the silk strands
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
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