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