Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Intricate work
Silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Concentration!
Knitting
Weaving
Wool spinning
Felt slippers
The pattern is progressing
Keeping warm with the sheep
Starting a thread
Unwinding the silk strands
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving tools in use
Weaving
The raw material
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Weaving
Felt working
A wool winder
A sheepskin collar and coat
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
A flock of sheep
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Gathering something, but what?
Intricate work here.
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Close up of the spinning process
Wool spinning by hand
Concentration on the job
Rope making by hand
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool half spun
Inserting a thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
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