Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt working
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Felt slippers
A wool carder
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
There is someone inside that!
Concentration!
A sheepskin collar and coat
A flock of sheep
Rope making
Spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Making a felt hat
Pressing the felt
Spinning and winding wool
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Felt hat making
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns ready for weaving
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A historical loom?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving tools in use
Wool waiting spinning
A wintry scene
Full length sheepskin coat
Knitting
A lot of wool to be spun
Concentration on the job
Rope making by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Unravelling the threads
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hat moulds
Wool spinning the traditional way.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Close up of the spinning process
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning
Shaping the hat
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Hat moulds
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