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