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