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