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