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