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