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