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