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