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