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