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