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