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