Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving
Weaver at work
Finished felt hats
Drawing silk into skeins
Knitting?
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Yarns ready for weaving
There is someone inside that!
A flock of sheep
The raw material
Concentration!
A wool winder
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making by hand
Drawing silk threads
Weaving in progress
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Balls of newly spun wool
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning
Hat moulds
A silk moth.
wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool working or rope making?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Unravelling the threads
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
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