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