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