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