Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Silk cocoons
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Rope making
Pressing the felt
Wool spinning
There is someone inside that!
Silk being drawn into yarn
Felt slippers
Intricate work
All keeping warm in the cold.
Felt slippers
Rope making by hand
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning
Hand spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Knitting?
wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning by hand
Weaving
A wool carder
A lot of wool to be spun
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Weaving
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hat moulds
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Inserting a coloured thread
Concentration!
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Finished felt hats
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