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