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