Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Wool spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving in progress
Drawing silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
Rope making
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wool carder
Wool half spun
Teasing thread
Spinning
Concentration!
Starting a thread
A flock of sheep
All keeping warm in the cold.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Rope making the hard way
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
It looks a mess whatever it is.
spinning by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Many threads being drawn into one
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Unravelling the threads
Weaver at work
A historical loom?
Weaving tools in use
There is someone inside that!
Spinning wool by hand
Felt slippers
Silk cocoons
Knitting
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Finished felt hats
A happy weaver
Wool waiting spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Felt slippers
Pressing the felt
Weaving
Concentration on the job
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making by hand
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a coloured thread
A fiddly job
Intricate work here.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Keeping warm with the sheep
A silk moth.
Inserting a thread
Dressed for the weather.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
The sheep look neater!
Spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
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