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