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