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