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