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