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