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