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