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