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