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