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