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