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