Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt working
The raw material
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Rope making
Spinning wool by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
Wool half spun
Concentration on the job
Spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
Unravelling the threads
Drawing silk threads
Full length sheepskin coat
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Intricate work
Dressed for the weather.
Wool spinning
spinning by hand
Felt hat making
Rope making by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
Spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Finished felt hats
A wool carder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving in progress
A lot of wool to be spun
Felt slippers
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning
There is someone inside that!
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Spinning
Weaving
A fiddly job
Shaping the hat
Drawing silk into skeins
Spinning
The sheep look neater!
Knitting
Weaving in progress
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving tools in use
wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Close up of the spinning process
A wool winder
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