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