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