Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning wool by hand
Unravelling the threads
A lot of wool to be spun
Making a felt hat
Rope making the hard way
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Dressed for the weather.
Wool awaiting spinning
Felt slippers
Felt working
Spinning by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Spinning and winding wool
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving in progress
Weaving tools in use
Hand spinning
Knitting
Silk cocoons
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk into skeins
A happy weaver
Gathering something, but what?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Felt hat making
There is someone inside that!
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Intricate work here.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Shaping the hat
Wool spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Hat moulds
Wool half spun
Many threads being drawn into one
A fiddly job
A wool carder
Starting a thread
Hand spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
spinning by hand
Unwinding the silk strands
Inserting a coloured thread
The pattern is progressing
Weaving in progress
wool spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning
Drawing silk threads
Full length sheepskin coat
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving
Yarns ready for weaving
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Teasing a thread of some sort
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