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