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