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