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