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