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