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