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