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