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