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