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