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