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