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