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