Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Rope making by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Dressed for the weather.
Weaving
Drawing the silk threads
A wool winder
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Intricate work
Wool waiting spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Drawing silk threads
Felt working
Full length sheepskin coat
A lot of wool to be spun
Finished felt hats
Concentration!
Inserting a thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Wool spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
A happy weaver
Making a felt hat
Felt slippers
Intricate work here.
All keeping warm in the cold.
A wool carder
Many threads being drawn into one
Felt slippers
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
The raw material
Hand spinning
A wintry scene
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Knitting?
The sheep look neater!
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning and winding wool
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns ready for weaving
spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A historical loom?
Hat moulds
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning
Shaping the hat
A fiddly job
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
There is a thread of some sort there.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
The pile is going down
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