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