Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
The raw material
Drawing the silk threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
There is someone inside that!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
wool spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving tools in use
Hand spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool working or rope making?
Drawing silk into skeins
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving in progress
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt hat making
Silk being drawn into yarn
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Rope making by hand
Knitting?
Weaver at work
Rope making
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
A fiddly job
Shaping the hat
Felt working
Spinning wool by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The pattern is progressing
Wool spinning
Spinning
A flock of sheep
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
A sheepskin collar and coat
Intricate work here.
Starting a thread
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
Inserting a thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Gathering something, but what?
Intricate work
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Weaving in progress
There is a thread of some sort there.
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Close up of the spinning process
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