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