Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool waiting spinning
Intricate work here.
Silk cocoons
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning
Felt hat making
The pattern is progressing
Soaking the silk cocoons
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Knitting?
Weaver at work
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
Yarns ready for weaving
A wool carder
Silk being drawn into yarn
A flock of sheep
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A historical loom?
There is a thread of some sort there.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool spinning the traditional way.
spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
A sheepskin collar and coat
Spinning
Making a felt hat
Weaving
Concentration!
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
There is someone inside that!
A fiddly job
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Drawing the silk threads
Hat moulds
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Yarns ready for weaving
Unravelling the threads
Hat moulds
The sheep look neater!
Felt slippers
Spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Starting a thread
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving tools in use
Inserting a thread
A silk moth.
Intricate work
Spinning
A happy weaver
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Finished felt hats
Teasing a thread of some sort
Drawing silk threads
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