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