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