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